Anthony Cody: Accountability Is Designed to Set Schools Up to Fail
In a hard-hitting essay, Anthony Cody describes how accountability has been turned into a weapon to create demoralization, failure, and privatization of public schools. He reviews the recent fiascos involving Tony Bennett and New York’s Common Core testing. He notes that both the AFT and the NEA are trying hard to meet the demands of the corporate reformers. Both are trying to help teachers prep
NY Parent: The Kids Didn’t Fail, the System Did
Tim Farley and his wife opted their children out of the state testing. They don’t care to know whether their young children are college-and-career-ready. They know their children are doing well in school. They think the system is sick. They know the tests will inflict unnecessary pain on children who have disabilities and children whose native language is not English. They are doing what they c
Who Set the NY Cut Scores—and What We Still Need to Know
In this post, teacher Maria Baldassarre-Hopkins describes the process in which she and other educators participated, setting cut scores for the new Common Core tests in New York. She signed a confidentiality agreement, so she is discreet on many questions and issues. At the end of the day, Commissioner King could say that educators informed the process but in reality they made recommendations to h
Jersey Jazzman: “College and Career Ready” Standards Are a Fraud
Jersey Jazzman noticed that the proportion of students rated as proficient by New York’s State Education Department is very nearly identical to the proportion in the population of the state with a four-year degree. It occurs to him that the phrase “college and career ready” is phony. It really means “ready for a four-year college degree.” Should students be failed unless they are ready to get a fo
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Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: The Error That Caused the New York Test Scores to CollapseHere is the reason for the collapse of test scores in New York City and New York State. State officials decided that New York test scores should be aligned with the achievement levels of the federally-administered National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This is a
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