tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post7243251638372027486..comments2024-03-28T02:32:33.019-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Cuomo Calls For "Comprehensive Review" Of The Implementation Of The Common Core And The Endless Testing Regimereality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-69913919938274404062015-09-04T07:14:53.564-04:002015-09-04T07:14:53.564-04:00Many of those top students fail to show growth bec...Many of those top students fail to show growth because they've already scored so high in previous years. Many of those students actually hurt the teachers when it comes to APPR and VAM.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-6122407179725388932015-09-03T23:52:22.857-04:002015-09-03T23:52:22.857-04:00NYSED uses GROWTH scores. NOT achievement scores. ...NYSED uses GROWTH scores. NOT achievement scores. VAM is mathematical voodoo that uses a formula (that no one can explain) to produce comparative score change data. The most difficult group to show "growth" in are the high achievers. They produce consistently high scores; consequently rarely show significant growth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-21384960287516726152015-09-03T20:12:09.028-04:002015-09-03T20:12:09.028-04:00If the children of higher SES families, who tradit...If the children of higher SES families, who traditionally test well, provide the bulk of the opt outers, then one may hypothesize that test scores in those communities will go down. This phenomenon could serve Cuomo's APPR agenda by facilitating the firing of more teachers.<br /><br />Abigail ShureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-19403219810856068612015-09-03T14:40:44.933-04:002015-09-03T14:40:44.933-04:00Before not-so-sophisticated folks have a premature...Before not-so-sophisticated folks have a premature climax here, some things must be made clear. (The none-to-sophisticated folks I am referring to are NYSUT leadership most especially and lots of others) <br /><br />1) As RBE pointed out, NO MENTION OF APPR OR TEACHER EVALS. That is the biggest thing. Its not what is mentioned that is important...thats just noise. It is what is NOT mentioned that we have to be focused on. <br /><br />2) This is a continuation and ramping-up of a campaign that was started a few weeks ago to try mightily to pacify parents and take the edge off testing in the face of opt out. It is and will be all about coming down hard on teachers over opt out. <br /><br />3) We must be hyper-clear now. The reform movement is about privatizing how education is administered within the state (and nationally for sure). The people that administer education are teachers (not administrators in districts, in spite of their claims otherwise). The reform movement seeks, after all the bullshit is stripped away, to privatize the money states pay to teachers....to redirect those funds and more, into corporate coffers. Sure, it wants money to do the tests and run the schools, but the big $$ is in taking the funds states pay to teachers. Lets be real. So, the reform movement's entire goal is to remove current, organized teachers...to "scientifically" prove they are incompetent, deprofessionalize them, and then take over the task of delivering education and the said money. Make no mistake about this. The reform movement's deep-center is about removing teachers. <br /><br />4) In light of #3 above, Governor Cuomo is a strident political spokesperson for the reform movement. They have paid him. He is invested in them and they in him. There are few bonds he has that are tighter. The reform movement and Cuomo are not particularly interested in testing, common core, etc. These are just tools they have used to pursue their real objective (stated above in #3). They know as well as we do, no doubt, that the tests and common core are bullshit. Sounds strange, but the tests, even common core itself...its all arbitrary. What they are really after is us. Turns out that that is still where the laser-beam focus is. Cuomo and his kind, reformers, etc...all will fart around with the arbitrary stuff....they'll add, take away, throw out, change, manipulate, modify all day long and twice on sunday all of the testing stuff to keep parents calm. Its not what they care about. A commission (wow!!!) will be formed and testing will be modified within the state. (Cuomo and reformers inside their heads are saying "so what?") However, the absolute, laser-like focus on damaging and eventually removing teachers will continue and most likely pick up pace. <br /><br />This commission means nothing and its results will mean nothing. That is for sure. <br /><br />Did NYSUT declare victory yet? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com