Six on Schools: Teachers are walking out in multiple states. Blame GOP economics.; Opt-out families respond to Carranza’s sta
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"The traditional testing battle lines are being drawn already with state testing starting next week. Council member Daniel Dromm, the former head of the council’s education committee, is holding a press conference ahead of the tests calling on the education department to inform parents about their ability to opt out of tests.
He expressed his disappointment at Carranza’s statements in a phone call with Chalkbeat on Thursday. “I think that the only thing that’s extreme is the way the state misused these tests,” Dromm said. “I can totally understand why parents opt out of these tests.'”
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"The state offers curriculum modules on the EngageNY site – some districts use the modules as a script, some purchase commercially available curricula and a few create their own at the school level. To the best of my knowledge there is no alignment: standards-based questions with curriculum and lessons not aligned to the standards; not exactly a good formula for increasing test scores on a standards-based test.
Will New York State move to content-based tests? Actually testing on what is taught – unlikely, the state seems committed to the current course, for example: the state skipped out on the opportunity to apply for an Alternative Assessment pilot.
While the state leads the nation in per capita pupil dollars the state also is at the top of the inequitable distribution of dollars list. The highest achieving, highest wealth districts spend the largest mount of dollars and the lowest achieving, lowest wealth districts the least amount of dollars. Is the governor or the legislature going to move towards correcting the inequity? Nary a whisper from Albany or a scintilla of discussion in the recent budget approval process.
Add to this that New York State is the most segregated state in the nation, and we have a “tale of two states,”
"Of course it's not just history. Students also are slighting other humanities disciplines including philosophy, literature, linguistics and languages. Overall, the core humanities disciplines constituted only 6.1% of all bachelor's degrees awarded in 2014, the lowest proportion since systematic data collection on college majors began in 1948.
