25 test days a year for this Colorado school district that is ahead of the ball on applying test scores to teacher evaluations.
25 test day a year.
And teachers get fired if those test scores don't improve.
In a generation, when the nation (I hope) comes back to its sense on education issues, we will look back at Bush and Kennedy and NCLB and excoriate them for the damage they did to public education.
But when we look at Bloomberg and Klein and Obama and Duncan and Rhee and Bennet and the rest of the corporate education reformers who have power now, their names will be synonymous with "Satan" for the harm and misery they will have caused a whole generation of children and teachers and for the damage they will have done to public education for turning it into a test factory.
What makes you think any of this has to do with improving education?
ReplyDeleteNothing - just being my usual sarcastic self.
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