New standardized tests feature plugs for commercial products

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5. Even worse,

every thing that comes from Pearson and its political mouthpieces is written or spoken in Double Speak, which is scary enough, but it's also incomprehensible to anyone who believes that language should convey meaning. The most revealing phrase corpobots throw around is "critical thinking." They never, ever use the phrase "creative thinking." The difference is profound. Critical thinkers solve encountered problems (a very useful skill) such as those that can be designed for standardized test. Creative thinkers ask questions that create new problems that cannot be reduced to questions on a standardized test, and that is a huge difference. It is the difference between the advance and the decline of a civilization.