| David Gamberg is the superintendent of two neighboring districts on the North Fork of Long Island, Southold and Greenport shows how bizarre it is to evaluate educators based on the test scores of students they never taught. This is sometimes called "shared attribution. He makes the point by using an analogy. Suppose all doctors in the community were judged by the weight loss of every community member? We will assess eye doctors, podiatrists, and pediatricians based on the results of data gleaned from a community's ability to lose a specific amount of weight by a specific date on the calendar. You happen to be a pediatrician who has just begun your practice, and as such you work in a relatively poor community. Within the first few years of practice your license is revoked due to "poor performance." You never get to a point in your career where you might consider opening a practice in a more affluent community. This one size fits all standard would ensure that doctors suffer the personal and professional consequences of the poor performance of the patients within this area. THIS is what the NCLB testing 'reform' has done. |
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