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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Schools Matter: Yatvin calls for nonviolent resistance on national scale to teach what is best for students, not waste time on test prep

Schools Matter: Yatvin calls for nonviolent resistance on national scale to teach what is best for students, not waste time on test prep

Yatvin calls for nonviolent resistance on national scale to teach what is best for students, not waste time on test prep

Former NCTE President J. Yatvin calls for "nonviolent resistance on a national scale to teach what is best for their students and not waste time on test prep."

L. Haimson: " … once .. tests are linked to high-stakes consequences, like teacher pay, tenure or the closing of schools, the results are no longer dependable for diagnostic purposes, either for schools or individual students.
P. Brust: " … many of (my) teachers … instilled fear, not confidence and a love of learning. According to No Child Left Behind, they would have been the masters of the profession.
B. Gordon: "Schools obeying the governmental mandates that their students do well in their standardized tests regularly 'cheat' our children out of their education …"

Former NCTE President calls for nonviolent resistence test prep

Former NCTE President J. Yatvin calls for "nonviolent resistance on a national scale to test what is best for their students and not waste time on test prep."
L. Haimson: " … once .. tests are linked to high-stakes consequences, like teacher pay, tenure or the closing of schools, the results are no longer dependable for diagnostic purposes, either for schools or individual students.
P. Brust: " … many of (my) teachers … instilled fear, not confidence and a love of learning. According to No Child Left Behind, they would have been the masters of the profession.
B. Gordon: "Schools obeying the governmental mandates that their students do well in their standardized tests regularly 'cheat' our children out of their education …"
J. Snider: Remember Campbell's Law: “the more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision