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Monday, December 6, 2010

Blog: Teachers created standards now used against them

On her "Answer Sheet" blog for The Washington Post, Valerie Strauss hosts two guest writers who believe that teachers helped enable the accountability movement "that is choking teacher creativity, teacher autonomy, and teacher initiative. And our students are the ones who are paying the greatest price. In replacing normed-reference testing with criterion-reference testing, we replaced something bad with something worse," writes educational author Mark Pennington. "The standards-based movement with its frame of accountability is fully entrenched." His comments are followed by remarks by author Maya Wilson, who agrees that teachers "created standards... that were then used against them as the basis first for high-stakes standardized tests, and then as a springboard for national standards created by a corporation created by governors and business interests. Read the entire post online.

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