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Re:The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students by 2k03kv4r5p on Sunday July 24, 2016 @01:44PM (#12154003)
>I don't see why the tests can't be administered on paper and have the teachers grade them.

Standardized tests are used to evaluate teachers and schools. Given the chance, teachers and school administrators will cheat on them.

By the way, teacher's union desires that their performance not be evaluated is a source of motivated reasoning on this topic, so be skeptical.

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Re:The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students by WalterBright on Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:05PM (#12154346)
> Given the chance, teachers and school administrators will cheat on them.

I know. This can be mitigated by swapping the anonymized test sheets with other schools to be graded.

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