History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Teaching to the next test
- 09-07-2010
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Blog by Scott Folsom/4LAKids
WE - whoever "we" are - have just invested a whole lot a angst, sturm und drang - not to mention column-inches, media-minutes and bandwidth - in whether test scores from the California Standards Test (CST or STAR) - tests taken by students that don't effect their grades-or-futures - should be used in some way to evaluate teacher effectiveness. And job-worthiness. Not ability really ...but what my friend and former writing partner correctly calls 'capability'. The unresolved question/point of contention, is whether standardized tests taken by students are a way to evaluate teacher performance - whether as a snapshot-in-time ...or assessed over time. ON THURSDAY THE WHOLE WRETCHED MESS WAS MADE MOOT, even as the LAUSD Board of Ed committed itself, the District, 45,000 teachers and 680,000 kids to CST Test Data Driven Reform. The CST/STAR test will be no more, replaced by a new national test. (more…)
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