Despite launching several reforms to close the achievement gap, like Mayor Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative, city education officials acknowledged that minority group students and other vulnerable populations will likely do worse when harder standards are implemented.
“Anytime you raise standards, the achievement gap for our neediest students gets bigger,” said Shael Polakow-Suransky, the city Education Department’s chief academic officer.
But officials vowed that scores would improve with the overhaul of lessons and test prep.
Ah, yes - more test prep, more obsession with test scores, more narrowing of the curriculum to only what is tested, more time added to the day for test prep, enrichment activities, recess and physical activity reduced so schools can spend more time on test prep.
Yeah, that should make things better.
Insanity has been described as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Enough Said!!
ReplyDeleteAlas, the people behind this policy are quite sane. They are using this to drive their privatization agenda.
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