| Audrey Beardsley, one of the narion's leading experts on teacher evaluation, recently visited New Mexicoe and there found an unhappy, test-obsessed school system. "She says New Mexico has gone "high stakes silly." She attributes this to state commissioner Hanna Skandera, who was deputy commissioner in Dlorida when Jeb Bush was governor. Hanna never taught. She believes in the Bush gospel of testing."What's more, teachers in NM must sign a contract promising never to disparage the tests in school or in public. Beardsley tried to make sense of the state's VAM program but couldn't. Then she learned that a group of rocket scientists at Los Alamos tried to understand it, and they couldn't either,."Finally, the opt-out movement, was also a source of discussion throughout my visit; a related post was recently featured on Gene Glass's "Education in Two Worlds" readers might also find of interest |
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