This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build.
Information on Business Roundtable Plan to Demolish Massachusetts Teachers
- Student Test Scores: An Inaccurate Way to Judge Teachers (PDF)
- FACT SHEET: Paying Teachers for Student Test Scores Damages Schools and Undermines Learning
- FairTest and allies testified to Mass Board of Education against
proposed educator evaluation proposals; their spoken comments are here. - Written Testimony to Mass Board of Education against using
student scores to judge teachers.