People of Color Must Reject Market-Based Education Reform

Our policy makers, starting with President Obama, must lead with a support-based reform agenda focused on creating the

learning environments and conditions in which all children will have an opportunity to learn and succeed. Dr. John H.

Jackson

FACT: Market-based education reform is driven by corporations and includes profit and political or economic control

by those creating the policies in the first place.

FACT: Market-based education reform is grounded in two notions: public education should be run like a business and

public school students are future workers to be molded to fit their predetermined role in the corporate workforce.

Research shows that market-based reforms:

Reality:

Market-based education reform has hurt public education with high-stakes tests attached to untested national standards that have reduced quality and equitable instruction for all students.

Market-based education reform has drained schools and communities of much needed funding and has caused an increased in mismanagement, cheating, and stealing.

Discriminatory state and federal education policies with an over emphasis on high-stakes testing foster achievement and economic gaps based on race and class.

Educators and students of color suffer the major brunt of the negative impact market-based reform has on teaching and learning.

REFUSE THE TEST! OPT YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF HIGH-STAKES TESTING!

Cause more harm than success for non-white students

Result in separate and unequal schools for non-white

students

Result in poor teacher quality for non-white student

schools

Result in sub-par pedagogy for non-white students

Result in questionable ethics in test distribution and

grading

Violate students rights and cause physical and

emotional harm

Facilitate the school to prison pipeline

Facilitate the redistribution of wealth

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Why People of Color Must Reject Market-Based Education Reforms: A Compilation of the Evidence

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An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution: United Opt Outs Test of Courage.

UNITED OPT OUT NATIONAL: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform

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