Hassard describes the fight to block authoritarianism in education, which is closely aligned with the resistance to authoritarianism in the public arena."The authoritarianism of standardization has spread harm and inflicted damage to America’s public schools during the last two decades. The profits from standardized tests and teaching materials associated with the Common Core have overwhelmed the nature of learning in public school classrooms that one wonders if this Goliath which has trampled on the very heart of education in a democratic society, can be brought down. The vanguard voicing opposition questions the lack of wisdom, profound ignorance, and inexcusable ineptness of an educational reform movement that is rooted in a very narrow purpose of schooling: teaching to the test... indiscriminate and relentless and a serious threat to the basics of learning."
At www.artofteachingscience.org
