tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post7920038510884593504..comments2023-12-24T05:39:44.753-06:00Comments on Mike Klonsky's Blog: Duncan's new tests may be worse than the old onesMike Klonskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-34132320020180282102012-07-19T10:18:10.555-05:002012-07-19T10:18:10.555-05:00Duncan is also arm-twisting the state to speed up ...Duncan is also arm-twisting the state to speed up the use of these untested tests, which correlate to untested standards undergirding as-of-yet unwritten curriculum, to evaluate teacher performance, as part of the NCLB waiver process. <br /><br />As a person who works in public school IT, I can tell you that if these tests are online, there is simply no way at all that any of this is going to happen with the level of integrity required in standardized testing. The only people who will contradict me are people selling tests, computer equipment, or who have no direct knowledge about how computer labs work, how wi-fi works, or what it's like to teach.Learhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05053574139373063271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-83804772697526506532012-07-19T09:14:38.797-05:002012-07-19T09:14:38.797-05:00Duncan wants teachers to teach higher order thinki...Duncan wants teachers to teach higher order thinking yet he and his bff 1%ers are on a campaign to dumb down teacher education:<br /><br />http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/07/sheepskin_effect.html<br /><br />Duncan's immunity from his and his ilk's own hypocrisy would be funny, if it wasn't so tragic.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12813056667733621829noreply@blogger.com