Tony Bennett: There Will Be No Delay in Common Core, PARCC
From an Associated Press report in the Tampa Tribune:
TALLAHASSEE — Florida shouldn’t delay new academic standards it’s sharing with 44 other states or a related test despite looming obstacles, the state’s schools chief said today at an education summit sponsored by business interests.
Other participants at the meeting in Orlando, though, said they were worried Florida was moving too fast by attempting to fully implement the standards in the 2014-15 school year.
Education Commissioner Tony Bennett last week told the State Board of Education he was developing a “Plan B” in case the test designed to assess the new standards isn’t ready in time. The test being developed by a 23-state consortium will replace the existing Florida Comprehensive
New FLDOE Test Scoring Calculations “Has Potential to Dismantle Public Education”
FLDOE researcher Kathy Hebda has testified before the Florida legislature and the state Board of Education that data that was acquired by the SB736 guidelines was valid and measured what was intended. Meanwhile, Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education has taken Hebda’s numbers and run with it. In a blog post yesterday, National Policy Director Mary Laura Bragg went this far:
The student performance portion of a teacher’s evaluation is based on whether or not students learned something in the classroom that year.
A few weeks ago, the Florida Department of Education released data showing:
- A teacher with a classroom of gifted students does not have an advantage over a teacher