Posted on July 10, 2008 at 9:18 am by Liam Julian
Good news in D.C.
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July 10th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Significantly! (But probably still keeping us solidly in fifty-first)
July 11th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Liam,
As an advocate of accountability, I don’t know how you could avoid looking at the calendar when you posted this! The DC-CAS is administered in April. It’s now mid-July, and city-wide scores are just coming out. That means that the test is not being used at all for the two main purposes of accountability it should be serving: assessing students’ readiness for the next grade and assessing the performance of teachers and principals in time to impact the next school year.
These scores were, in theory, going to be a part of teacher ratings this year. It’s obviously too late for that. I don’t understand how the education community can applaud Chancellor Rhee for holding her principals to account and let the lateness of these test scores slide.