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I read a very length piece by a former Governor Phil Bredesen staffer on Race to the Top. There was nothing really new in the piece and I was unsure why it needed 16,000 words. I would have summed it up briefly like this if I wrote it: “The state needed money, so we took [...]
We can and should discuss the value that assessments can provide. We must also discuss how the emphasis on testing is missing the bigger issue: student academic growth measured by flawed testing. Then the results being used in educator evaluations. This is certainly more problematic to educators than the actual tests themselves.
JC Bowman writes: the emphasis on testing misses the bigger issue: student academic growth measured by flawed testing. Then the results being used in educator evaluations. This is certainly more problematic to educators than the actual tests themselves.
Testing has taken a wrong turn in public education. JC Bowman of Professional Educators of Tennessee offers solutions for Tennessee.
Race to the Top in Tennessee History. Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, "I was able to get the T.E.A. to accept some things that probably a Republican wouldn’t have gotten done,”
