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This Video Shows Why Teachers Are Losing Their Minds

Miles Kampf-Lassin

This video showing Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers at a professional development session gives a sense of the absurd measures teachers are being forced to endure in 2014. The presenter, one of several consultants brought in by CPS from California and the UK, makes the educators repeat her over and over, supposedly in preparation for upcoming standardized testing in Illinois. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis called the video "sick." Read about CPS teachers' boycott of standardized testing here.

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Miles Kampf-Lassin, a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School in Deliberative Democracy and Globalization, is a Web Editor at In These Times. Follow him on Twitter @MilesKLassin

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