Pearson, ETS, Houghton Mifflin, and McGraw-Hill Lobby Big and Profit Bigger from School Tests A CMD Reporters’ Guide written by Center for Media and Democracy’s Jonas Persson, published on March 30, 2015, states that large textbook and testing corporations have been lobbying in favor of “No Child Left Behind” as well as for the new “Common Core curriculum.” Since the act has passed, there has been an influx of testing, reffered to as “expaned testing” (Persson. 2015), the large book companies are profiting about $2 billion per year. Along with this, the CMD has reported, that the companies have been dodging signing or advocating for student privacy rights (Persson. 2015). “Pearson has a track record of lobbying against privacy protections for kids, using some of the big profits it is making off of Americans’ federal and state tax dollars from the expansion of testing” (Persson. 2015). Educational Testing Services, has been reported by CMD, that in 2014, the company lobbied for the “introduction of a statewide testing system in California and against a bill requiring test agencies to ‘immediately initiate an investigation’ after complaints on ‘inadequate’ testing conditions. It also lobbied against a bill designed to safeguard pupil data when Local Education Agencies (LEAs) sign contracts with 3rd party entities” (Persson. 2015). It seems that these large testing and textbook companies are lobbying extensively for the “expansion of the K-12 testing regime, while fighting tooth-and-nail against legislation designed to safeguard student privacy or protect kids from commercial data mining” (Persson. 2015)
Persson, J. (2015) Pearson, ETS, Houghton Mifflin, and McGraw-Hill Lobby Big and Profit Bigger from School Tests A CMD Reporters’ Guide. Sourcewatch.org. Retreived from http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/b/bc/Pearson_ETS_Houghton_Mifflin_and_McGraw-Hill_Lobby_Big_and_Profit_Bigger.pdfPearson, ETS, Houghton Mifflin, and McGraw-Hill Lobby Big and Profit Bigger from School Tests A CMD Reporters’ Guide
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