tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post7370897803228085983..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Siena Poll: New Yorkers Very Negative On Common Corereality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-31429726722299745762015-10-27T21:57:28.614-04:002015-10-27T21:57:28.614-04:00Hey Andy, wanna bring those numbers up? Tell your ...Hey Andy, wanna bring those numbers up? Tell your heavy hearts legislators to dump CCSS. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-61953231480715188882015-10-26T10:40:37.099-04:002015-10-26T10:40:37.099-04:00Spot on! Except their mystical, magical VAM formul...Spot on! Except their mystical, magical VAM formula will not survive the barrage of legal challenges that will ensue. And, the opt-out movement will render test sore data useless, as will also be proven in court (eventually). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-83520158094647968182015-10-26T08:26:34.277-04:002015-10-26T08:26:34.277-04:00Heres how it will play:
Common Core is a politica...Heres how it will play:<br /><br />Common Core is a political liability at this point. Perhaps a more aggressive rebrand will happen. Perhaps a symbolic dumping entirely of common core in NYS. Whatever. The end result will NOT be a return to teacher/student centered education policy. <br /><br />Common Core was never the goal. Just a tool. WHAT WILL REMAIN NO MATTER WHAT CHANGES ARE MADE: TESTS TO RATE TEACHERS. <br /><br />Not for a second should we take our eyes off of what they are really up to with testing and now limiting testing: their central aim to deprofessionalize teachers and remove organized teachers from the equation entirely.<br /><br />Testing, common core, etc. were NEVER about education, educational pedagogy, educational best-practices, or “the kids.” Never. Not even in the opening seconds of the reformers’ thinking. (BTW: this was our unions’ largest and first total mid-read….they assumed that common core and reformers impulses were fundamentally educational, rather than political, corporate, and hyper-capitalistic).<br /><br />The central goal of testing within the reformers’ agenda is to establish data to “prove” teachers suck. This, I would argue, is the central nugget that will remain untouched with Obama, Duncan, King, and Cuomo, Elia, etc at the NY State level.<br /><br />As I have always said, the reformers and their political voice boxes will be remarkably nimble in trimming, cutting, modifying, and changing their agenda around…..at the margins, without ever disturbing that central nuggett…teachers rated via tests. They’ll do less, call for less, rename, rebrand, restructure…..but the one thing they will never change is that….trying to “scientifically” oust a generation of organized professional teachers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com