Naples Daily News: FCAT Has Misdirected Florida’s Taxes and Time
This is going to leave a mark:
There have been too many mistakes made by its administrators. Last but not least is the folly of scores on some writing exams being so low — due to misunderstandings about what teachers were to emphasize? — that grading had to be dumbed down.
This is all about accountability — though not the kind the FCAT sought to assign.
Florida’s education bureaucracy, not classroom teachers, are accountable for the mess.