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Chris Harrow

High-stakes testing cheats children out of a quality education | Get Schooled - 0 views

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testing reform high stakes

shared by Chris Harrow on 15 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
  • “[W]hen test scores become the goal of the teaching process, they both lose their value as indicators of educational status and distort the educational process in undesirable ways.”
  • New requirements to assess teachers based on their students’ scores, in particular, virtually guarantee even more cheating will take place.
Robert Ryshke

National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Homepage - 0 views

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Teacher Quality

shared by Robert Ryshke on 31 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 31 Dec 11
     
    The formal policies and agreements that establish the work rules for teachers have important consequences for what schools can and cannot do. Despite their importance, collective bargaining agreements and personnel policies too often escape public scrutiny. Read more... State governments are arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession.
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