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A Felliniesque education story
- 12-13-2010
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Guest blog by Marc Epstein/Washington Post
If you’ve taken a look at the newspapers lately and tried to make sense out of the debates swirling around public education, it might feel as if you’ve walked into the middle of a showing of Fellini’s Satyricon. If that’s the case, don’t be alarmed. You are witnessing a story that has no coherent beginning, middle, or end. It really doesn’t make sense. The New York City Department of Education is insisting on the right to release its data on teacher performance as it correlates to student results on state examinations The United Federation of Teachers has taken the city to court claiming that release of this data violates a signed agreement between the two parties to the keep the data confidential. But what is the point of even gathering data that anyone serious about education or testing knows is meaningless? Although Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the New York Board of Regents, has issued a report prepared by Professor Daniel Koretz or Harvard University, asserting the state tests administered to students in elementary and middle school were not valid measurements of their abilities, this hasn’t deterred New York City. (more…)
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