One of the Top Ten Dumbest Reform Ideas: alternative certification/charter school groups wrote a joint letter to Congress proposing that all teacher preparation programs be judged by the test scores of their students, which they call "outcome data." . The same VAM-soaked high stakes test scores that has been debunked by everyone from principals to statisticians to teachers and was called arbitrary and capricious by a NY judge, the same sort of system thrown out by Houston-- let's use that not just to judge teachers, but to judge the colleges from which those teachers graduated.Why would we do something so glaringly dumb? " Because" says Greene "everyone in the universe is dumb as a rock-- except reformsters... Nobody has any idea which teaching programs are any good, although virtually every program for teaching has a well-developed and well-known reputation among professionals!
At curmudgucation.blogspot.com
