tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post1939642598954231914..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Data Driven DrivelPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-74956733845586843982014-05-01T05:43:43.263-04:002014-05-01T05:43:43.263-04:00I don't know what I like better here, the post...I don't know what I like better here, the post or Just A Mom's response. Both are xlnt! ty Peter for tweeting the link.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05721772653170249556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-87018375928796398572014-04-29T22:30:31.221-04:002014-04-29T22:30:31.221-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05721772653170249556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-77392160281855313822013-11-17T15:02:03.002-05:002013-11-17T15:02:03.002-05:00I believe a teacher is in the best position to ass...I believe a teacher is in the best position to assess my child, not some big-stakes test as you so eloquently stated, reduces my child to a number. A teacher knows if a student isn't getting it, and if they don't that's a different conversation. We're being told that the common core and the PARCC test will guarantee my child is "career and college ready." Yet they are basing the common core and the PARCC (in theory) on what employers are saying they need today. So, explain how basing a kindergartner's education standards on what is needed in today's marketplace will make him "college and career ready" for what the marketplace will need in 12 years? <br />And news flash - I'm not sending my child to K-12 to be "college and career ready." "College and career ready" is a meaningless catch phrase used to justify implementing untested standards and expensive assessments. I want my child to have teachers who will teach and inspire him to learn more and do his best. Not how to take a test and have to do well so that his teacher won't be fired and his school won't be considered a failure. <br />The wheels started to come off the bus when the federal government, and those who favor a top down and not a bottom up approach to decisions involving education, started to tell us that American students were lagging behind and decided they knew better than my local school board, administration and teachers. Just think what our schools and teachers could do with the resources we are spending on high stakes testing and implementing common core. It is just a matter of time until common core is yet another failure just like it's federal predecessors, NCLB and RTTT.Just A Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04649551661642031832noreply@blogger.com