Pearson imposes gag order on teachers about test.

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13. This report indicates Pearson's desperate attempt to keep itself profitable and indispensable.

...I also have questions about whether a financially desperate Pearson may be creating demand for its products by making tests more difficult to deflate student performance. One of the reasons for the big push for Common Core and high-stakes standardized testing in the United States is supposed poor student performance on international tests like PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study). Pearson designs, creates, and sells Common Core aligned tests and curriculum in the United States and will be developing the frameworks for the OECD's landmark PISA educational assessment in 2015.

In a sense, the worse students do on these tests, the more desperate families become, the more politicians promote miracle solutions, and the more money Pearson will make.

So, is Pearson Education in serious financial trouble? We can only hope so!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/is-pearson-education-in-s_b_5212784.html?utm_hp_ref=education&ir=Education

Pearson cannot legally define ethics or teacher 'termination' policies for any school district in this country; it cannot imply that teachers' jobs are at risk if they say anything at all about testing. Pearson has subverted teaching and learning excellence in its aggressive overreach of teachers' classroom speech. In fact, Pearson should be taken to court in a class action suit that charges it has overstepped its authority, IF ANY, in their school districts. The climate of testing fear is one that Pearson has created, not the teachers.