Principal: What I've learned about annual standardized testing - The Washington Post - 36 views
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the Department of Education should not be “a national school board.
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Matt Renwick on 02 Feb 15Quote from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)
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I have witnessed schools move from progressive practices such as inclusion, to the grouping of special education students with ELLs and other struggling learners into “double period” classes where they are drilled to pass the test.
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to think that first-graders fluently reading would “cure poverty” is not only indefensible, it trivializes the great economic inequities that are the root cause of our nation’s greatest challenge.
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There is now minimal support from the research community for the use of annual test scores in teacher evaluations, often referred to as VAM.
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When teachers begin losing their jobs based on test scores, how easy will it be to attract excellent teachers to schools with high degrees of student mobility and/or truancy? Who will want to teach English language learners with interrupted education, or students with emotional disabilities that make their performance on tests unpredictable?