Starr calls for 3 yr moratorium on standardized testing

Anonymous
A wise and sincere educational leader would want to see the effects of such policies using the outside metric of State exams over the next 3 years. Only a fox would make such draconian changes to the MCPS educational track then turn a blind eye to outside annual exams (for 3 years) to monitor or gauge effects of such draconian changes.

To Starr: If one makes swift and significant pertubations to the educational system and process you had better monitor closely the effects of such changes on the performance of your students (internally and externally). Burying your head in the ground for 3 years and avoiding external assessment is not permitted. When you make radical changes to a system (e.g., eliminate subject acceleration, change the grading and student assessment system) you simply DO NOT eliminate well established outside or external annual metrics of your educational program. Such longstanding validated information is a vital check, comparator, measure of internal tinkering.

Education 101, Mr Starr.

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:So I think Starr is prepping us for some bad test results. Apparently we need 4-5 years to decide if the new c2.0 is working? My read is that new curriculum is a big experiment and they will have to tinker with it as they read the test results the next few years. In other words, my kids are part of one big experiment that may benefit future kids. Hopefully, my kids won't suffer too much damage, I guess.

The truth is we need testing, but it should either be for policy research or for evaluating children on their own individual educational needs. It should not be to evaluate teachers. MCPS does not evaluate teachers through test results, however, so I don't get what all the fuss is about other then to prep us for the bad curriculum we know is now getting rolled out.

Is C2.0 Josh Star's fault? No. The BOE/Weast made these decisions already. Still, BOE/Starr are accountable for this mess.

By the way, is Pearson going to design and implement the testing on their own for-profit curriculum? That seems like a conflict of interest to me.


Your post makes a great deal of sense. Interesting. Now what should we do to make sure our children are prepped if we are not going to get tested by MCPS? We are not interested in going back to lack of accountability of public schools. I think we can work with this... your thoughts?
Anonymous
Oops I mistyped. I meant to write the lack of accountability of private schools.
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