GUEST POST: Arresting Development: Police Officers, Teachers, and Standardization, Julie Gorlewski
What happens when public employees are forced to use standardized measures to deal with human endeavors? Our most vulnerable youth populations suffer. Today, this is clearly visible in education and law enforcement. Police officers, charged to increase municipal revenues by meeting arbitrary quotas, implemented “stop and frisk” policies that have hideous and excessively detrimental effects on youth of color who live in communities marked by poverty and civic disinvestment. Likewise, public school teachers and administrators have been coerced into implementing standardized assessments, the results of which will affect the viability of their schools and jobs. In both cases, the expertise of professionals in the field has been co-opted by evaluative tools and measures imposed by authorities removed from the personal interactions that are crucial to tasks such as community policing and teaching.
Decades of research reveal what happens when high-stakes evaluations are inflicted on human activities: personal interactions are damaged, workers become demoralized and alienated from their labor, and assessment results are corrupted (people cheat to keep their jobs). Moreover, these negative effects are most profoundly felt by the most vulnerable members of society. Today, young people are being harassed by law
Decades of research reveal what happens when high-stakes evaluations are inflicted on human activities: personal interactions are damaged, workers become demoralized and alienated from their labor, and assessment results are corrupted (people cheat to keep their jobs). Moreover, these negative effects are most profoundly felt by the most vulnerable members of society. Today, young people are being harassed by law
#edTPA fun fact number 2…
Writing or composition is not scored. So, submissions can be and are passed riddled with grammatical errors. How on earth is this acceptable?
That was another edTPA fun fact.
That was another edTPA fun fact.
#SMDH on teacher evaluation…
When is it time to just give up? All these excuses from those who still have this unyielding faith in technocratic methods that just aren’t working. Bunch of crybabies, all of them.
Now what might work THIS time are outside evaluators and, of all things, cameras in the classroom? What? They have to stop handing out tenure to some people.
Now what might work THIS time are outside evaluators and, of all things, cameras in the classroom? What? They have to stop handing out tenure to some people.