Is Miami-Dade Next to Endorse the National Resolution on High Stakes Testing?
The state’s most recognized superintendent was clearly mad yesterday. Alberto Carvalho, a man who carefully chooses his words said some interesting things at the Miami-Dade school board meeting yesterday about this week’s FCAT nightmare. From Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm:
“What we saw yesterday , we predicted,” Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho told his school board Wednesday. “We knew [the percentage of failures] would be significant. What we didn’t know was how severe.”
Carvalho described a chaotic series of “recurring and ever changing” teaching standards pouring out of the state over the last year, most of them after the school year was well under way. He counted 18 major changes.
Teachers, whose salaries depend, in part, on FCAT scores, started out the school year expecting to emphasize certain accountability criteria but learned along the way that the state had decided
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