Why corporate reformers fabricate public school failures | Seattle Education:
Why corporate reformers fabricate public school failures
One interesting phenomenon that many of us see is how people, particularly parents, will say that schools are failing but the school that their children go to is fine.
They also say that they like the teachers and are satisfied with the education their child is receiving, it’s just those other schools that they constantly hear about that are failing. Which ones exactly? They’re not sure but “you hear about it all the time in the news”.
Hmmm.
And to continue in the vein, the Seattle Times is going to publish, with the help of Bill Gates, everything you wanted to know about the test scores and other “data” of all students who attend public schools in the state of Washington along with information about their teachers and staff.
It has been said when the new state test goes into effect which replaces the WASL, that test scores will initially go down. My guess is that all of those teachers who taught to the WASL, and there were plenty, will not be able to prepare their students for this new test. It will be interesting to see how that all shakes out.
But, if test scores are shown, thanks to the Seattle Times and reporters who know
