“NAKED SHORTING” OUR KIDS
“NAKED SHORTING” OUR KIDS –
Why is New York State Testing a Curriculum It Hasn’t Even Delivered Yet?
By Susan Crawford
Starting next week New York State students from grades 3-8 are expected to take tests on a Common Core curriculum that they have not yet been taught. If there was ever a case of “the emperor having no clothes,” this is it! Actually, another “naked” analogy came to mind for this situation. If the corporate reform movement has been trying to apply business practices to education for the past decade, it was surely only a matter of time before it would cross from the boardroom to Wall Street for inspiration.
From the boardroom, instead of “principals” of schools, New York City schools now have “CEOs.” “Accountability” has been the buzzword for calling to account teachers and students who fail to meet “benchmarks,” i.e. test scores, even while the tests and the “cut scores” on them have been changed