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John Shadegg: “That is why I think that America would be in open revolt. There would be an outcry across this country if people…”

On the recordOctober 23, 1997
That is why I think that America would be in open revolt. There would be an outcry across this country if people understood that that kind of parental control of their local school was about to be stolen away by a one-size-fits-all Washington, D.C. written national test. I want to make a couple of quick points. I pointed out that this education consultant was a part of a group called the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and that he wrote it is downright dangerous to teach kids math calculations. There are a couple of quotes that I want to read from him to show how radical the people who will influence this test are.
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John Shadegg
Arizona

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Discussing concerns over national education testing and parental control in schools.

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