Comments on: The solution to everything: More Standardized Testing!

By: CT Essential Politics – Wednesday 09.05.12 - CT Devil's Advocate

CT Essential Politics – Wednesday 09.05.12 - CT Devil's Advocate — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:44:04 +0000

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By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:55:00 +0000

Posted something a little less obnoxious;-)

By: Linda174

Linda174 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:39:00 +0000

Please post just that on CT news junkie.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:32:00 +0000

Makes him look like an eduvulture? Mr. parent trigger what’s in it for me Jason Bartlet?

Mr. DUI, license suspended, gets arrested while sitting on the CT legislature Jason Bartlett?

Let’s remove democratically elected school boards with a freaking petition Jason Bartlett?

Where do they find these people?

By: jonpelto

jonpelto — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:47:00 +0000

Will do….
He couldn’t be more wrong.
To blame Diane for the tone of michele rhee’s organization’s attack on the ct parent’s union is absurd.

Sent from my BlackBerry please excuss typos

By: Linda174

Linda174 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:41:00 +0000

Please comment on this article where CT rep.
Bartlett blames Ravitch for the leaked Students
First memo that makes him look like another eduvulture:

http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/ctnj.php/archives/entry/former_lawmaker_dismisses_leaked_letter_on_education_debate/

By: Luv2Teach

Luv2Teach — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:39:00 +0000

This is SO scary! Furthermore, in Bridgeport, Common Core books were ordered, so that’s what we’re teaching. We know this administration doesn’t ‘care much’ for those pesky CMTs…However, our Governor deems them acceptable as 45% of our evaluation, so we should care and be worried… and, more than anything, what it’s doing to our kids is just heart breaking! When will it stop? I just want to TEACh and let me kids LEARN, for COL!!

By: Linda174

Linda174 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:24:00 +0000

Read about Charlotte PAA being banned from the Students First sponsored viewing of Won’t Back Down…big guys in black ties woudn’t let moms in and blocked their entrance. I thought this was all about parent choice?

http://parentsacrossamerica.org/2012/09/pam-and-carols-excellent-students-first-adventure/

By: Magister

Magister — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:11:00 +0000

So I guess to survive the college education programs will teach Ed students teach tithe test strategies. Either that, or they will go the way of the dodo bird and teacher prep will consist of deprofessionalized, five week, TFA style training seminars. I have about twenty years left in my teaching career. I hope I can survive this and see the pendulum swing back the other way before it is time for me to retire (unless the underfunded pensions implode and I can’t retire).

By: George Peterman

George Peterman — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:32:00 +0000

The Broad and Walton (as in Walmart) Foundations are also deep into these groups. We’ve been hearing about this type of evaluation for a while, but here it is. It just shows how empowered these pricks, such as Patrick Riccards, feel after achieving some gain in the quest to take down public education. If they can do this in “liberal” Connecticut, what’s next? The sad fact is they aren’t done with Connnecticut yet. ConnCAN and there cronies cry that not enough has been done to protect the poor children. Unions must be outlawed and private companies brought in to save the day. That’s worked real well so far, hasn’t it? To think that standardized test score reflect anything about the teacher-training institutions is just ludicrous. But that’s the infuriating world we live in. These charlatans armed with misleading data are pulling the wool over too many people who don’t have the sense or integrity to look behind the curtain. At least the folks in Windham are waking up. Maybe that will start a little grassroots fire.
One of the great ironies of all this BS is the fact that the regressive red states that started embracing “reform” first – Texas and Florida to name two obvious ones – are now back-pedalling on their legislative efforts now that they are getting negative results.