The Costs of Trying to Game the Systems of the Educational Deformers: For Better or For Worse, For Richer, For "Richerer," In Sickness And In Health?
Since 2007, the Bloomberg administration evaluated N.Y.C. schools by assigning single A-F grades. Due to this junk science, schools were closed, teachers turned into vagrant ATRs and communities split apart. Meanwhile, charter schools gained footholds, pushing the truly public students aside.Schools gamed the system for survival as well as administrative merit pay. Schools worked hard to find w
Let It Not Be Said that the Common-Core Sacrifices Creativity in the Name of College and Career Readiness!
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2-12-14 V.A.M.: Value Added Measure
V.A.M.: Value Added Measure: The Sounds of Failing (Based on Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence")Governor Andrew Cuomo is tenaciously holding to his APPR schemes to evaluate teachers based largely on student test scores. Last Spring, 70% of N.Y.S. students failed the Common-Core tests. If one believes in junk science, one might seek to fire 70% of the State's teachers. In sch