Book Review: None of the Above.

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Which of the following statements about education in the United States is generally true? Choose the one best answer.

1. Education powers upward economic and social mobility.
2. Standardized tests provide an objective way to assess students.
3. Good charter schools with high expectations can close the “achievement gap.”
4. The Atlanta cheating scandal was the fault of misguided black educators.
5. None of the above.

That’s correct. The answer is, “none of the above,” which is also the title of a book published this year by former Atlanta teacher, Shani Robinson, and journalist Anna Simonton. Their book exposes the dirty campaign and racist frame up that targeted Atlanta public schools and indicted 35 educators all but one of whom was black. The government threatened decades of hard jail time and sent black educators to prison. For what? For the “crime” of manipulating some scores on standardized tests. For the record, some surely did – under the tremendous pressure of the education “reformers” running Atlanta’s schools – while others were simply framed up, the accusations against them invented out of whole cloth. But what was behind it all was the vicious testing regime that victimized teachers, students and even principals, using rewards and punishments in the service of a regimented corporate “education” model.

Submitted June 06, 2019 at 06:26AM by a_indabronx http://bit.ly/2WOnCgG