The NYSED Commissioner has decided that third graders (and fourth graders, and fifth graders, and so on...) get to evaluate their teachers.
These so-called "student surveys" will count for 5% of a teacher's overall evaluation starting in 2014-2015.
Education reformers who promote the use of student surveys say that there is an overall correlation between how effective a teacher is and what students say about a teacher on the surveys.
I can see a whole host of problems with this part of the evaluation, especially when it is used for students as young as elementary school.
But if the education reformers are so bent on getting student surveys into the mix and so sure that students have an accurate measure of teacher effectiveness, I am sure they'll be excited to add student surveys to the annual performance evaluation of NYSED Commissioner John King.
Oh, wait - NYSED Commissioner John King doesn't have an annual performance evaluation.
Perhaps that's something that needs to be remedied in the next legislative session.
We can add the use of student (and teacher and administrator surveys) for John King's annual performance evaluation at that time.
What say you, erstwhile corporate education reformers?
You say everybody needs to be held accountable with "rigorous" evaluation measures.
How about holding the NYSED Commissioner accountable?
Or the Regents Chancellor?
Tisch and King move in circles where you fail upward.
ReplyDeleteTisch's familyis worth billions. She is the neoliberal gun moll who is delivering the heads of the entire state's once public education system to corporate control. It's been going on for decades worldwide. We are in one of the last bastions in the public sector to be shocked out of existence. Other names are "globalization", "free market capitalism", laissez faire , deregulation.
ReplyDeleteWhat was is now history , never to return. Barring some miracle of course-which won't happen. They are salivating over the new industry they have created.
Tell me, where were we 20 years ago when entire industries here were outsourced overseas? Who here bought Bill Clinton's NAFTA deal? That was supposed to better both Mexico and the U.S. In reality, it hurt both tremendously. Clinton also deregulated both Wall Street banking, AND media ownership. These were all neoliberal victories. The aftermath of 9/11, the privatization of war, the security state, the Patriot Act, all is under the same umbrella as the Ed reform movement.
This is how the Big Boys play now. It took them this long to destroy 100 years,of civil service law and,practice...but they have done it. Cuomo , the head fascist, gave it to them on a silver platter-or,should I say golden platter?
He destroyed collective bargaining completely by giving King the power to do this.
All of,those who are still "shocked" by what's going on should read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine." The first chapter should be enough .
Cuomo and Clinton are scum. So is Obama. I'm off the "Democratic" bandwagon. They're as bad as the Repubs, just slightly more subtle, in their destruction of unions, work protections, jobs, etc. Unfortunately the union leaders play ball with these guys and help lead us to the slaughter.
Delete(cont) Anotherwords, the same machine that invaded Iraq, killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, toppled,foreign governments, destroyed the economy for working people-this is who wrote this assessment deal.
ReplyDeleteDo,you really believe a marginal character like Mulgrew or Weingarten is fighting back?
Many of us will be out of this profession , max....5 years. Prepare for another life.
Nope - I think Mulgrew and Weingarten are on the payroll, just like Cuomo, Clinton, and Obama...
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