Alan Singer writes that the real test of the state’s new standards will happen in the classroom. The proof of the pudding, he writes, is in the eating, not in what is said or written about it.
He warns that the whole process may be tainted if the current testing regime remains in place. And he worries that the state aims to quash the opt out movement, which is the only public voice and which compelled the state to make these revisions.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Commissioner Elia believes in testing. She has stated that there always will be tests used in the teacher evaluation process. As long as teachers are held to the results on tests, teaching will consist of mainly teaching to the test, regardless of the standards.
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Commissioner Ella needs to take those tests herself. Funny about these mandates, they only apply to others, not themselves.
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She already failed the only real test that counts: the critical thinking test.
And she has failed that one repeatedly: eg, when she did Bill Gates’ bidding in Florida.
She doesn’t know how to think independently. She just does as she is told, at her last job by Bill Gates’ and now by Andrew Cuomo.
Of course, she gets paid extremely well NOT to think. NY State pays her a quarter million dollars a year and in Florida, she was getting close to $300k per year and got a large severance (over $1 million) when she was terminated.
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From a brief exploration of the standards, it looks as if all aspects of teaching and learning and testing in every subject must be focussed on reading and writing, and I suppose math. Learning content seems to be instrumental to become a better reader and writer, and mathematician.
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THIS is a very important and yet often overlooked point: making standards which apply only — and very heavily — to literacy and math has been a very real reason why the NCLB/R2T game has seldom been fully challenged. Every district and school is different, but too often teachers who have been the perpetual focus of testing and blame have been on their own against teachers in their own buildings who do not feel the same intense pressure, the same constant harassment, the same public blame, and who are not forced to experience the same crazy whirlwind of “test-score” invasions.
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Crushing the Opt Out movement is no different than what the Nazi’s did to crush descent during the rise of Hitler. The same thing happened in Russia with the rise of Stalin and in China with the rise of Mao.
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: the standardized test.
More Regents phony baloney.
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