Latest News and Comment from Education

Thursday, July 7, 2011

The NEA and the IEA. On the issue of testing and teacher evaluation, timing is everything. « Fred Klonsky's blog

The NEA and the IEA. On the issue of testing and teacher evaluation, timing is everything. « Fred Klonsky's blog

The NEA and the IEA. On the issue of testing and teacher evaluation, timing is everything.

Timing brothers and sisters. Timing is everything.

48 hours after the NEA RA passed its Proposal on Accountability and Teacher Evaluation the news breaks that the Atlanta school system is facing the worst test cheating scandal yet. It’s just the latest cheating scandal and it won’t be the last.

The NEA leadership will claim that the proposal does not support high stakes testing. But who is kidding who? The purpose of the proposal was to show that the NEA has finally