Education Reading Round-Up
From the Washington Post's The Answer Sheet, an article about D.C.'s county superintendent calling on President Obama and Secretary Duncan to call a moratorium on standardized testing.
In a report entitled "E Pluribus...Separation: Deepening Double Segregation for More Students", the
He also said it was wrong to evaluate teachers based on the scores their students get on standardized tests because the method that is is based on “bad science.” He noted that he had previously worked in the New York City Department of Education, the nation’s largest school system, where was director of school performance and accountability. It became clear, he said, that the formulas used to assess a teacher’s value with the use of test scores had huge margins of error, as much as 55 points.
In fact, he said that a good way to create assessments for Common Core-aligned curriculum would be to crowd-source the development and let teachers design them rather than have corporations do it. He criticized policies that help make public education
“a private commodity.”
An op-ed from Ed Week about equity in education by Pedro Noguera.“a private commodity.”
In a report entitled "E Pluribus...Separation: Deepening Double Segregation for More Students", the