According to NAEP, Our Students Are Improving
One final thought regarding test scores and teacher evaluations before I move back to the proposed charter school bill in our state.
From the Economic Policy Institute blog, ‘Reformers’ playbook on failing schools fails a fact check, an excerpt:
Education “reformers” have a common playbook. First, assert without evidence that regular public schools are “failing” and that large numbers of regular (unionized) public school teachers are incompetent. Provide no documentation for this claim other than that the test score gap between minority and white children remains large. Then propose so-called reforms to address the unproven problem – charter schools to escape teacher unionization and the mechanistic use of student scores on low-quality and corrupted tests to identify teachers
