Posted on 03/12/2017 1:11:24 PM PDT by southern rock
New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing it.
The state Board of Regents on Monday is expected Monday to adopt a task force's recommendation of eliminating the literacy exam, known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test.
Backers of the test say eliminating it could put weak teachers in classrooms. Critics of the examination said it is redundant and a poor predictor of who will succeed as a teacher.
"We want high standards, without a doubt. Not every given test is going to get us there," said Leslie Soodak, a professor of education at Pace University who served on the task force that examined the state's teacher certification tests.
The literacy test was among four assessments introduced in the 2013-2014 school year as part of an effort to raise the level of elementary and secondary school teaching in the state.
Leaders of the education reform movement have complained for years about the caliber of students entering education schools and the quality of the instruction they receive there. A December 2016 study by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that 44 percent of the teacher preparation programs it surveyed accepted students from the bottom half of their high school classes.
The reformers believe tests like New York's Academic Literacy Skills Test can serve to weed out aspiring teachers who aren't strong students.
But the literacy test raised alarms from the beginning because just 46 percent of Hispanic test takers and 41 percent of black test takers passed it on the first try, compared with 64 percent of white candidates.
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Now it’s quite clear why they say our language is racist.
Good grief what a bunch of losers.
It’s a good thing the kids can’t tell a literate teacher from an illiterate one, or scrapping this test would produce a generation of children who could draw racist conclusions from their observation of teachers over the years.
Oh, wait, I remember we could all tell...
Reading is racist. Writing is double-racist.
“The test is not racist. The teachers are stupid and it shows they can’t do the work.”
*****
BINGO!! Winner winner, chicken dinner.
I thought it was axs.
Affirmative Action degrees prove you didn’t even try to learn.
wonderful, now Johnny can't read, write cursive or do arithmetic...
I say we do this with airline pilots as soon as possible.
Why should taxpayers have to pay for remedial education for stupid people? Just cull them from the herd and move on. Nationwide, there is a surplus of teachers as it is.
With school choice coming up, there will be even less need for state indoctrination centers.
You spelled kestion wrong. It’s kwestshon dummy.
You’s ain’t kwalifide to teech
And the alarms should say: "WARNING! There are more illiterate Hispanics and Blacks trying to become teachers than Whites!"
There is no reason to expect all races to perform equally on the test, and an infinite number of reasons to expect results will be unequal.
Paging Dr. Sowell...
Diversity is more important than results
“Please. It is spelled aks.”
They can’t say “Ask” but they can all say “Escalade”.
The superintendent of New Haven, CT schools has a pierced eyebrow. Just pointing that out.
I guess they believe we should kick black students out of classroom with white teachers.
I’m surprised...., NOT...
You hit the nail on the head with force.
The Bell Curve mocks wishful thinking.
Some time ago Chris Rock did a great "skit" in one of his concerts which is referred to as "Black People versus Ni**az".He starts it by saying "you know,I *love* black people but I *hate* niggaz".He goes on to describe "ni**az" as ignorant,lazy crooks.At one point he touches on education...and the lack of it in "ni**az"...and he says something to one of them like "OK,what's the capital of Zaire?" and the "ni**a" responds,in a stereotypical way,"I don't know that s**t...keepin' it real!"
I wonder how many of the minorities who took the test know the capital of Zaire.I think it might be Kinshasa,but I'd have to look it up to be sure.
Check out his video on youtube.Classic stuff! Just search Chris Rock and Black people...you'll find it.
So much for lefties adoring science
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