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On the recordOctober 2, 2017
when you are terrorizing a school into limiting its curriculum only to what is on some test that came in from often, as you said, a vendor out of State, that is hardly serving the children, the school, or the community.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Critiques the negative impact of standardized testing on education.

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