The Washington City Paper has an article on the PARCC results with way more graphs and charts than I do, and they quote even Chancellor Kaya Henderson as saying the results were ‘sobering’.
Please remind me why she still has a job?
She and several other speakers said that the PARCC results were more ‘honest’ than the old DC-CAS results, probably because the new ‘passing’ scores are lower than the old ones. I guess that means that it’s more ‘honest’ to say that students are doing worse than we were previously led to believe, under the current regime of all-testing-all-the-time and turn-half-the-students-over-to-unregulated charters?
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[…] Brandenburg, retired D.C. Teacher and lose observer of the District’s schools, says the combination of all-testing-all-the-time and putting half the students in unregulated charter schools was not […]
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Why does Henderson have a job? Because it was guaranteed by the corporate masters who control Bowser and the council. The would say that you ar3e living inn the past when you compare the “reformer” promises with their actual performance. They are looking to the future. Accountability is for the “little people,” like teachers.
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