Ohio Senate Education Committee Chair Peggy Lehner has been instrumental
in keeping Common Core in Ohio despite several years of vigorous grassroots
efforts to replace it with higher-quality academic standards. Recently, she
commissioned a survey of teachers, principals, and superintendents to see what
they think of the state’s new tests, which are the second half of the Common
Core initiative (after benchmarks that forecast what the tests will contain).
By a 100-to-1 ratio, teachers and superintendents “strongly disagree” the tests “went well,”
compared to those who “strongly agree.” Of the 6,657 teachers who responded, only 51
“strongly agreed” the tests went well, while 5,427 “strongly disagreed.” An
even larger proportion of teachers “strongly disagreed” the students were given
an appropriate amount of time to complete the tests......To Read More......
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