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This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005

Friday, May 06, 2011

Information on Business Roundtable Plan to Demolish Massachusetts Teachers

  • Student Test Scores: An Inaccurate Way to Judge Teachers (PDF)
  • FACT SHEET: Paying Teachers for Student Test Scores Damages Schools and Undermines Learning 
  • FairTest and allies testified to Mass Board of Education against
    proposed educator evaluation proposals; their spoken comments are here.


  • Written Testimony to Mass Board of Education against using
    student scores to judge teachers.


     
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