“Make sense out of this economy”
Jack Jennings is president and CEO of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy.
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“Need for independent oversight of high-stakes test and testing programs”
George Madaus is a professor of education and public policy and a senior fellow with The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy at Boston College.
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“The need for far-improved assessment”
Monty Neill is deputy director of Fair Test, a Cambridge, Mass.-based nonprofit that works to advance quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools.
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“Support for teachers and assessments”
Thomas Payzant is a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to that, he served as superintendent of the Boston Public Schools.
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NCLB
No child left behind, in theory, is a good pan. However, it does not work. Schools are losing their funding because they cannot fill get all subgroups to the proficient level. States refuse to raise their standards out of fear to lose funding. And most importantly, this act was not created by educators. There are many unreal expectations. Though the general public feels that education needs to reform into a new direction, which I agree to an extent, this is without doubt the wrong direction. Most creativity in the classroom has been watered down in the primary subjects due to the great stresses placed [Read more...]
