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Education Writers Association Casts Its Narrowing Gaze on Boston, May 1-3 , April 2016 Fordham Institute's Pretend Research, Pioneer Institute report [download] , February 2016
The Fordham Institute has long been at work on a study of the relative quality of tests produced by the two Common Core-aligned and federally funded consortia (PARCC and SBAC), ACT (Aspire), and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (MCAS). What Fordham has produced is only in the most superficial way an actual analysis. In fact, it reads more like propaganda and lacks the basic elements of objective research. It takes only a little digging under the surface to reveal pervasive conflicts of interest, a one-side