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Smarmie Doofus

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3. It's lazy and it's also corrupt.

Reply to mbperrin (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 26, 2011, 11:52 AM

Dec 2011

>>>>High stakes testing makes education competitive. It is cooperative. The whole testing schema is wrong-headed, but officials like it because it's easy to get a magic number to make decisions with. It's lazy.>>>>>

It's intellectual dishonesty. It's political demagoguery. It's scapegoating and union-busting.... all dressed up to look like "reform."

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Video:NYS Principals in Major Revolt Against RTTP-inspired testing. [View all] Smarmie Doofus Dec 2011 OP

Continuous improvement on scores is impossible, For example, I scored 800 out of 800 mbperrin Dec 2011 #1

EXCELLENT post. n/t YvonneCa Dec 2011 #2

It's lazy and it's also corrupt. Smarmie Doofus Dec 2011 #3

Great post. BadgerKid Dec 2011 #4