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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Schools Matter: Against Evaluating Massachusetts Teachers Using Student Test Scores

Schools Matter: Against Evaluating Massachusetts Teachers Using Student Test Scores

Against Evaluating Massachusetts Teachers Using Student Test Scores

I recently posted on the national push by the U. S. Chamber of Horrors put teacher evaluation by test score into every state, even the bluest states. Corporate control is a post-partisan issue simply because the SCOTUS decision allowing unlimited political spending by corporations makes them necessary to any politician. They own the game, and they will continue to own it until that decision is overturned or until we have a Constitutional amendment.

And so today the State Board of Ed passed in a hurried, confused, and insulting way a proposition to put in place a new evaluation scheme using test scores to evaluate teachers. By the way, the state board of Ed is so business friendly that they hate to be called the state board, preferring instead the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. No state, no board. Both bad.

The AFT chief dipdog was there to declare his victory in strong-arming the membership to support this travesty,