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Common Core standardized testing is being challenged across an America that has widely accepted its practice, from California to Pennsylvania. 

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High school senior Kenneth Ye didn't get the extra minute he wanted to destroy Common Core testing at his local school board meeting, but he still managed to get the job done.

For five bold minutes, the Tennessee student compared public schools to testing factories, where critical thinking is swept under the table of high-scoring ambitions. The testing system's board, Ye pointed out, includes members from for-profit companies dictating standards for a non-profit education system. 

"Education is not a business to be run," Ye exclaimed.

Ye shared his experience in the Chinese education system, where teaching is catered to high-pressure testing that, Ye argued, drowns out opinion and creativity.

An opinion piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal by a former Common Core committee member argued that the testing standards could not prove successful in fostering America's growing science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields. The Atlantic posted an article the same day outlining the challenges presented by Common Core to English-language learners in California. 

Pennsylvania's Common Core standards were adopted in 2010. Since then, groups such as Pennsylvanians Against Common Core have fought against the national standard and testing model. Advocates for Common Core support a national standard that requires deeper learning.

The debate rages on while 45 states continue to practice Common Core in their public schools.

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