Perhaps the pressure is building in the press to stop the Orwellian “double speak” and force ISDE to stop calling the SBAC “ISAT 2.0”
Call it what it is: the SBAC is a national test based on national common core standards.
It is not the ISAT, developed for use in our state only using standards made for Idahoans.
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Doublethink and newsspeak are doing quite well! Readers should note the article in the Idaho Statesmanon Sunday, August 17. http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/08/17/3328607/common-core-testing-key-in-boise.html?sp=/99/101/102/ To quote the article (about halfway ) “ISSUE NO. 1: COMMON CORE … Idaho has created the Idaho Core Standards, its version of Common Core State Standards adopted by most of the states.”
Say what? The Common Core standards are copyrighted. Idaho is a member of the testing consortium. Show me when and where Idaho created it’s own standards.
Next…show me that Idahoans are too smart to be this gullible.
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