Is Louisiana’s NAEP Miracle ‘Significant’?
In a recent Washington Post editorial, Mitchell Chester and John White, wrote about their successes in turning around low performing schools. Chester and White are both members of the organization Jeb Bush founded called Chiefs For Change. Most of the members are actually former chiefs who have left for one reason or another, but Chester and White are currently in leadership roles, Chester in Massachusetts and White in Louisiana.
This Washington Post piece, was, of course, hailed by ‘reform’ zealots like Joel Klein and TFA CEO Elisa Villanueva-Beard
Powerful, wise words from 2 great education leaders, @LouisianaSupe and Mitchell Chester via @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/news/education…
The specifics of what works in Louisiana and Massachusetts are different, but the principles remain the same: wapo.st/2lBeQk2
When I think of states that give evidence in any way about the possible positive impact of modern education ‘reform’ (closing down schools, replacing them with charters, evaluating and firing teachers based on a poor measure of ‘student achievement’, etc.), Massachusetts and Louisiana are not two of the states that come to mind. Massachusetts has always been at or near the top of the rankings. Based on the PISA scores, Massachusetts, if it were a country, would be one of the top performing countries in the world. And for Louisiana, except for the statistics that they invent, their test scores on NAEP, the AP, the ACT, and any other sort of standardized test have been very low and continue to be.
So why are we listening to John White, who came to Louisiana from New York where he was mentored by Joel Klein, about how to improve low performing schools? Well of Is Louisiana’s NAEP Miracle ‘Significant’? | Gary Rubinstein's Blog:
