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If you want to stick to your notion that the committee members are unqualified then so too are you unqualified to offer anything here. [/quote]

135 members
less than 5 elementary teachers

This is unbalanced.

I have said from the beginning that there was a lack of classroom teachers on the committees. This is still true.  I have never said that the committee should be composed of only classroom teachers.

I have also said that there is a lack of early childhood teachers on the committee.  This is still true.

You seem to think that a college professor who has not taught in public schools for 23 years "counts" as a classroom teacher.  Sorry, that does not fly. Even if she takes a week every summer to teach elementary children.  (Teaching for a week in a summer program is far from managing a classroom.)

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You = someone who doesn't think there is any relevance to having experts on math and language, no relevance to have people who actually have a background in standards development, no relevance to having folks who know psychometrics and performance measures, no relevance to having professors who have actually published research on childhood development and educational topics, no relevance to having professors from education schools who have worked with and continue to work with hundreds of teachers, again you only seem to think the only valid input is from teachers.[/quote]

I never said there was no relevance.  However, the committee is composed almost [b]entirely [/b]of people you describe.  A number of these people do not have ANY experience in the classroom.  There are more with NO experience than those with current experience.  And, do you really think that classroom teachers have no experience with performance measures?  
You really think that teaching college students is the same as teaching--and managing--a classroom?

Do you really think that some of these professors who have never even taught in an elementary classroom--ever--understand the dynamics of  a Kindergarten class?  Do you think they understand the needs of a Kindergarten student?

Once more: please list the early childhood teachers on the committee.

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