How Will NEA Support Corporate Education Reform This Year?
In defiance of the core principles of the NEA's Code of Ethics and basic common sense, last year the non-leadership of NEA arm-twisted the member reps into supporting the latest weapon in the corporate ed reform arsenal, which will make teacher pay and job security dependent upon students' value-added test scores. This embrace of testing includes the stipulation that teachers may be terminated after one year of bad scores, which defies human reason--since test scores may swing wildly from year to year, as this piece indicates.
In stipulating that the tests used must be valid and reliable, defenders of the NEA giveaway crowed that NEA had truly outsmarted the corporations that control ED--for the cheap off-the-corporate-shelf tests do not carry that
In stipulating that the tests used must be valid and reliable, defenders of the NEA giveaway crowed that NEA had truly outsmarted the corporations that control ED--for the cheap off-the-corporate-shelf tests do not carry that