Open mouth, insert foot: My advice to Ms. Levesque as she fails to make her case for standardized testing in Forida - MyEdNext

Open mouth, insert foot: My advice to Ms. Levesque as she fails to make her case for standardized testing in Forida - MyEdNext:

Open mouth, insert foot: My advice to Ms. Levesque as she fails to make her case for standardized testing in Forida

• Posted by Diane Hanfmann on June 18, 2012 at 3:00am
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Please allow me to begin kindly. I could hold  Ms. Levesque  less  responsible for her mistaken words since she has no cousework in education..but why should I?  With only a background in finance and business administration,she took the reins along with Latin American Studies major Jeb Bush to guide Florida schools and students into high stakes territory.
During this ride, grade three Reading scores were inflated due to test construction errors, Superintendents cited a lack of confidence in scores received, scanner errors were included in a study as well as lax oversight, a testing investigation led to the suggestion  by the investigators that it was unwise to tie so much to a single indicator, and for the finale, Writing proficiency rates dropped from 80% to about 30% in all three grade levels tested...but wait..it gets better...have no fear, they were returned to the higher rate in the course of a phone conference.  Welcome to the background or setting information. 

The PR damage control is in effect. The Education Commissioner toured the state touting high standards and the Common Core.Levesque seemed to follow the same PR line but included an example so bad I had to address it. Yesterday ,in the Gainville  Sun article, "The case for standardized testing,'  Ms Levesque compares Florida's testing to a