Posted on December 1, 2009 at 6:12 pm by The Education Gadfly
Today’s Quotable and Notable
Quotable:
“The underlying problem for all of this is: We don’t measure this stuff. Think of Major League Baseball where nobody tracked batting averages: ‘Well, I don’t know if this guy hits .350 or .150, but he looks pretty good up at the plate.’ That’s where we’re at (with teachers).”
-Daniel Weisberg, vice president for policy, the New Teacher Project
Cincinnati Enquirer: Rewrite teachers’ contract, CPS told
Notable:
$630 million:
Revenue taken in by the non-profit College Board, owner of the SAT, in the latest fiscal year. $57 million of this total was produced in “excess.”
Fortune Magazine: The standardized-test smackdown
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December 2nd, 2009 at 12:42 am
Two-thirds of a billion for tests we don’t need. Ouch. New book out shows GPA is a better predictor of student success anyway, even without knowing the quality of the sending school–perhaps it’s time to face the fact that teachers know a thing or two, and stop wasting parents’ money on these security blanket tests.