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It is now 2014, the year that NCLB declared that all our students would be proficient. They are not. What they are is tired of testing, and we are too. We now spend almost a third of our time in schools preparing students to take standardized tests, giving those tests, and reviewing the results of those tests. There are hundreds of subjects that are not tested. Many are no longer taught at all or have been defunded and de-emphasized. We did not become educators to drill students in standardized test taking.

Our children's education should not be about learning how to fill in the bubbles on standardized tests

In the last few years, rather than moving away from the failed policies of No Child Left Behind, our nation has doubled down on them. We now give standardized tests to students who have not been taught the subjects being tested. We use students' test scores to evaluate teachers who not only did not teach the subject being tested, but did not even teach the students taking the test. The resulting evaluations are no better than flipping a coin.

It is time to end this toxic testing and implement real accountability in our public education system. We need an accountability system that is centered on our students and their needs, not test scores. As educators who have dedicated our careers and lives to our students and their success, we will not stand silent while commercial standardized testing is used to reduce our public education system to wreckage.

As educators, we know what works. Students thrive when they enter kindergarten ready to learn, are challenged by high quality teachers and other education professionals, are taught to high standards with aligned curriculum, are assessed to determine what they have mastered and what they need help with, and receive individual attention when needed.

We also know that our students need strong family support and deserve excellent resources and school facilities. Too many of our schools do not meet these criteria. Too often race and economic class demarcate the line between those students who receive a quality public education, and those who do not.

Join with us to take back our public schools for all of our students. With your help, we will:

Pass the bipartisan Student Testing Improvement and Accountability Act (H.R. 4172) that will reduce the federal role in testing to the pre-No Child Left Behind status known as "grade-span" testing-once in elementary school, once in middle school, and once in high school.

End the excessive and toxic testing in our schools;

Develop a real accountability system that prioritizes learning over labels; and

Ensure that each public school is a place in which every student thrives.

Join our national campaign to put the focus of public education on student learning.

In Solidarity -
America's Educators

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It is now 2014, the year that NCLB declared that all our students would be proficient. They are not. What they are is tired of testing, and we are too. We now spend almost a third of our time in schools preparing students to take standardized tests, giving those tests, and reviewing the results of those tests.

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Letter about Education by Sarah D. - Letters to the Next President 2.0

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The U.S. education system suffers from several deficiencies that result in performance that is below that of other first world countries. For example, the uninvolvement of parents, the lack of teacher innovation, the underperformance of students and the complex and overbearing common core system.

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Will Fanguy
Content Strategist | UXBooth

We're getting ready to wrap up back-to-school season. As a former teacher (and complete school supply nerd), this has been a special time of year for me for decades. In memory of the excitement, anxiety, and promise that this time of year holds, we've put together a list of 10 great infographics that address important issues on the minds of many during these early fall months.

In the list that follows, you'll find a little bit of something for everyone. We've got tips for teachers on how to keep that early year enthusiasm going all the way through May (ok... at least til Winter Break). We've got advice for students that study online, pointers for parents sending their kids to school for the first (or fifth or fifteenth) time, and even a extra infographic submission of an honest-to-goodness Piktocreation put together by two of our super users. Sure, that puts us at 11 infographics, but who's complaining? ?

So take a look and let us know if there's something that speaks to you. Are we missing your favorite education infographic? Let us know in the comments at the end of the post. And, most importantly, welcome back to class!

Source: Online-Education-Degrees.net

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10 Great Infographics for Education- Piktochart Infographics | Piktochart

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We're getting ready to wrap up back-to-school season. As a former teacher (and complete school supply nerd), this has been a special time of year for me for decades. In memory of the excitement, anxiety, and promise that this time of year holds, we've put together a list of 10 great infographics that address important issues on the minds of many during these early fall months.

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there are a lot of problems in the world with education like people and Africa and Haiti don't have the education they need there schools are broken they don't have the supplies they need someone needs to help they places and it needs to be fast in a lot of places in the world dose not have a lot money to get the supplies kids need.