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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: "The worst way to evaluate teachers..."

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: "The worst way to evaluate teachers...":


"The worst way to evaluate teachers..."

Isabel Nunez is an associate professor at the Center for Policy Studies and Social Justice at Concordia University and my colleague at CReATE. She has written a great commentary in the Sun-Times, "Standardized test scores are worst way to evaluate teachers."
 I am part of a group called CReATE, or Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education, which is trying to unite the voices of academics in opposition to these changes and to the corporate takeover of public education. We are trying to spread the message