Daniel Katz points out that the number of states still signed with the federally funded PARCC tests has dwindled dramatically, from 25 (including DC) to a lonely 7.
Yet New Jersey won’t concede that PARCC stinks; it was designed to fail most students.
Instead, New Jersey is doubling down: PARCC will be its high school graduation test and will count for 30% of teachers’ evaluation.
What will New Jersey do about the majority of students who snt graduate high school?
Who made these dumb decisions?
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People who still like working for Chris Christie…and that’s a horrifying thought!
Christie invested a lot of politcial capital to keep Pearson’s HQ in New Jersey. Follow the money to find who made the decision.
MD, right next door, is equally in love with this monstrosity of stupidity. And SLO’s. And so we must link all of our teaching and “growth data” to this invalid mess which nearly half of students beyond the age of 13 fill in randomly or sleep through. And yet we as teachers must line up each day and drink this “PARCC KoolAid” or be dismissed.
When Gov. Christie appointed Cerf as Commissioner of Ed., in NJ, Cerf was instrumental in having NJ apointed as one the governing board members of PARCC. So, we are stuck with this until the next gubernatorial election arrives. (Cerf, a Broadie graduate was formerly with KIPP)
When PARCC was made a graduation requirement, the current appointed Commissioner announced he was leaving. One could surmise that this is just coincidence.
Isn’t that guy heading for jail?
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“Do not pass Go”
NJ’s new Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman and the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly introduced a bill yesterday to decouple standardized tests from the teacher evaluation. It passed out of committee. The only dissenting vote came from Asm. Auth who was caustic all morning. Most testimony in favor of the bill. Those who came out against it? NJ School Boards Assoc, NJ Business & Industry, NJCAN, DFER, and strangely, some Newark charter school parents (KIPP and NorthStar). BTW, charter teachers are not part of the NJ teacher evaluation system.
Right — but the worse the charter school funders and parents can make real public schools, the more charters win. The two pronged approach — kill “real” public education — so it drives people to the remaining corporatized, corrupt private schools they want to fund with public money.
How do these folks sleep at night?
Honestly, the parents had no idea the bill didn’t apply to charters. Someone had clearly left that detail out when getting them to attend the meeting.
This entire nationwide push towards privatization is an example of how too few people with too much money can destroy the democratic process. It’s deplorable and it’s happening on a massive scale.
This is actually an IQ test of the parents of the children in the Public Schools in NJ. If they sit by and allow this process to occur and impact the future of their children’s lives, then this indicates an IQ score of less than 100. Now we just sit back and wait for the results which will be available months sooner than the PARCC results. Enjoy analysing the test results. I am certain the analysis will be available before the students graduate from college, thereafter please share them with the university attended by each student, so they may be used to improve instruction. Wasn’t that the intended purpose afterall?