Data Driven Education is Not The Answer [Opinion]
Studies similar to the district's new teacher and principal observation rubric have been widely criticized and discredited as ideologically driven.
Brian Ford for is a history teacher at Montclair High School and a educational doctoral student at Montclair State University, educational doctoral student at Montclair State University, and co-founder of New Jersey Teacher Activist Group. Revolutions are rarely, if ever, sudden. They are a final breaking point – the product of collective acts of resistance over a period of time. When we teach our own American Revolution, it is important to reinforce to students that Lexington and Concord and the Declaration of Independence were the culmination of thirteen years of colonial resistance – sometimes highly organized, sometimes spontaneous, and inclusive of far more events than what makes it into textbooks. When it comes time to write the …
esther
8:42 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
in reading your comment again I do not think Mr. Ford represents the position of no testing. I didn't get that idea at all reading his opinion. While I do think that Dr. McCormick has jumped in without finding out how things worked in the past. She seems to have thrown the baby out with the bath water. It's not necessary to change everything all at once- even scientists change one variable at a … more ›