Posted on 02/01/2019 9:33:27 AM PST by reaganaut1
Four years ago, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo pushed through a plan to put New York at the forefront of a national movement to reshape American public education: He vowed that half of a teacher’s rating would be determined by student results on standardized exams.
But his initiative met with immediate resistance from teachers’ unions and parents, especially those in New York’s wealthy suburbs and progressive urban pockets.
They protested on the basis it would place undue stress on teachers and children, whose test scores are used for high-stakes admissions decisions and academic tracking.
As a result, with Mr. Cuomo’s assent, the evaluation system was suspended only months after it had been adopted. Now, in a final capitulation to a yearslong backlash, Mr. Cuomo is set to sign a bill the Legislature just passed that essentially guts the testing component.
The new measure will add New York to the growing rebellion against using testing to assess teachers that has also spread to Colorado and California.
Local school districts and teachers’ unions in New York will now officially be allowed to decide together how educators should be evaluated, with some oversight from the state Education Department, and no requirement that standardized tests must play a role.
The turnabout reflects in part the rising power of the state’s teachers’ unions in Albany now that their allies in the Democratic Party have taken control of both chambers of the Legislature for the first time in years.
“Do student test scores actually indicate teacher performance? I’m not convinced,” said John Liu, a newly elected Democratic state senator from Queens who co-sponsored the bill. “An overreliance on testing can result in perverse incentives. The best evidence is teaching to the test.”
“We want to get away from that,” he said.
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teachers + unions = Untouchables.....Overpaid untouchables.
Dem Progressives like Dumbing Down of students; they are easier to manipulate. It is the Progressive, anti-American Way.
Publik Skools - We no how to teech yur chilluns.
There4, give us mo monie.
Are they just going to asked them about their “feelz” now?
Ok, so they can’t pass proficiency tests. Big deal.
The kids do get indoctrinated, and they become good little comrades.
What’s the problem?
What do these parents do with their kids during summer break?
Is there anything in the state of New York that is essential for the functioning of this country?
Remington is still in Ilion, NY and Kimber is still in Yonkers, NY, other than that, not much.
RELATED:
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites failed the test on the first try, while 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
In other words the State of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers in classrooms.
It would be racist to evaluate those poor illiterate teachers on the basis of results.
Prior to allowing teachers to unionize the USA was ranked first in public education. Now we are ranked last among industrialized nations. Dead last. Public sector unions should be outlawed.
Hell, we don’t want proven smart people learning our public skrewel kids, do we?
If the NEA is involved, it will simply become a far more subjective evaluation rather than an objective and effective one. It will involve falling from mediocrity to a much lower level.
Home schoolers better pray. THEY will be targeted and/or eliminated.
A great educator once wisely observed that (paraphrased here) “teaching and learning are so entertwined” that one can hardly claim that “teaching” has occurred if learning has not resulted from the encounter.
I honestly think too many people here make knee-jerk assumptions about articles such as this which malign the idea of using student test scores to determine teacher effectiveness. As someone who has experience with this issue, basing a teacher’s effectiveness on the scores of tests taken by students who show up to class maybe 50% of the grading period, play on cell phones all period because the administration doesn’t back teachers when teachers try to curb the use of cell phones in class, complete maybe 1/4 of the work assigned to them in class (without even being given HOMEWORK to do), and who can’t contribute to any discussions had during class as none of them read even a letter of the assigned readings, is tantamount to judging a Parks and Recreation department on the refuse a concert-going crowd leaves on the ground over the course of the event, even though many trash cans and “Do Not Litter” signs are posted throughout the venue.
Try employing some of that vaunted “Conservative critical thinking” here and realize that this situation is not as simple as it may seem on the surface...
Same here in California the unions own Sacramento it’s why the state is such a shit hole.
In Los Angeles some teachers make over 200K and some cops can retire on 100K only way the state can pay for it taxes on taxes.
Uhaul is the only business making a profit.
Unions, gotta love ‘em.
Always finding ways to avoid accountability.
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