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highplainsdem

(48,902 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:39 AM Sep 2012

Fox Won't Disclose News Corp. Testing Contracts At Heart Of The Chicago Teachers' Strike

Source: Media Matters

In 89 segments between September 10 and 16, Fox News reported on the Chicago Teachers Union's strike without disclosing its financial ties to the educational technology company administering the standardized tests with which the union takes issue.

Fox News parent company News Corp. acquired a 90-percent stake in Wireless Generation in 2010. Last May, the company agreed to provide Early Mathematics Assessment Services and Early Literacy Assessment Services to Chicago Public Schools. These contracts total $4.7 million. A central reason the Chicago Teachers Union decided to strike is their objection to the school district's call for heavily weighing such standardized testing to ultimately determine teacher pay and layoffs.

But Fox News anchors and reporters never once disclosed its parent company's ties to Wireless Generation even as the network routinely criticized the strike and the Chicago Teachers Union.

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Read more: http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/fox-wont-disclose-news-corp-testing-contracts-a/189993

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Fox Won't Disclose News Corp. Testing Contracts At Heart Of The Chicago Teachers' Strike (Original Post) highplainsdem Sep 2012 OP

a right-wing news holding corp with 90% stake in public education standardized testing?? Roland99 Sep 2012 #1

This adds credence to the dumbing down of our children. RC Sep 2012 #2

K&R think Sep 2012 #3

Some one needs to sue Faux News for fraud gopiscrap Sep 2012 #4

k & r thanks for posting...nt Stuart G Sep 2012 #5

Roland99

(53,342 posts)

1. a right-wing news holding corp with 90% stake in public education standardized testing??

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:53 AM

Sep 2012

If this doesn't qualify as a then nothing does!

And the rest of the M$M won't push on this.

RC

(25,592 posts)

2. This adds credence to the dumbing down of our children.

Reply to Roland99 (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:22 AM

Sep 2012

The testing has less to do with knowledge learned than it does with getting the good teachers out. The good teachers object teaching to the tests where the correct "answer" is more important than a real education where the children learn much more than what someone decides is important only because it is on the test.
Comprehension, understanding of the subject matter is what is important, and that involves teaching critical thinking. Critical thinking was the first thing to go in the dumbing down of our schools.