Since the results on reading-comprehension tests are not chiefly based on what a teacher has done in a single school year, why would any sensible person try to judge teacher effectiveness by changes in reading comprehension scores in a single year? The whole project is unfair to teachers, ill-conceived, and educationally disastrous. The teacher-rating scheme has usurped huge amounts of teaching time in anxious test-prep. Paradoxically, the evidence shows that test-prep ceases to be effective after about six lessons. So most of that test-prep time is wasted even as test prep. Its time in which teachers could be calmly pursuing real education -- teaching students fascinating subjects in literature, history, civics, science and the arts, the general knowledge that is the true foundation of improved reading comprehension. E.D. Hirsch The Test of the Common Core. huffingtonpost/e-d-hirsch-jr/common-core-tests_b_3824859.html
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:55:00 +0000
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