New Jersey has followed the trail blazed by Jeb Bush when he was governor of Florida: competition, data, accountability, choice. It is the classic formula for those who believe that competition and data are the best “drivers” of education.
Thus, New Jersey has created its own report cards to drive competition. Predictably the report cards are heavily weighted by test scores. As we have seen again and again, the pressure to raise scores creates negative consequences, such as teaching to the test, narrowing the curriculum, gaming the system, and cheating.
Here Julia Sass Rubin explains that the state’s report cards are confusing, inaccurate, and flawed in many ways.
Every policymakers should be familiar with Campbell’s Law:
“The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
In plain English, the higher the stakes attached to testing, the more likely it is that the testing will corrupt education by becoming the goal to which all must aspire. Testing is a measure, not the goal of education.
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Julia’s conclusion is correct: These reports exist to knock good schools down a peg. The DOE is doing nothing more than operating a giant distortion machine, trying to convince communities that what they see every day in their schools is somehow not reality. The privatizers look at New Jersey, which has the No. 2 ranked public schools in the nation and is a model for funding equity, and think, “If we can make it there, we’ll make it anywhere.”
MALPRACTICE.
This is from one of the CHIEFS who loves to preach about ACCOUNTABILITY!
Once again, BROADIES have no shame.
The growing commercialization of education cannot help but mean that the advertising and PR industries will play increasingly dominant roles in manipulating public opinion about eduication. Look around at any other Big Bucks industry and you will see just how much of the Public’s dollar will be spent — let’s be honest — basically just lying to the Public. That is the simply the sad state of business “ethics” in our times.
One must wonder “What do they really want and for what reason with what they are doing?” It certainly does not make sense unless it is for total control and not for educated students who can think independently that is for sure. So the answer is “Total Domination.” Just that simple.
I’m speechless over the classification rate in my district’s middle school compared to the “Peer Group.” The only school with a lower rate is a charter.
Can anyone tell me to what the SGP’s are based on – that is, the 2012-12 school year compared to what? What is exactly is “history?”