tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post8083093644370404265..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: State To LOWER Educational Testing Standards -- Pedagogical GobbledygookDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-14096040066645324922014-12-07T13:52:17.892-05:002014-12-07T13:52:17.892-05:00I'd appreciate it as an interested observer, i...I'd appreciate it as an interested observer, if not a self-governing citizen, if teachers in Hartford were to wear cameras, as is presently being urged for cops. I think it possible that such a move would enhance the position of teachers against standards. I am certain it would work to the detriment of the Government Education System as a whole. <br /><br />Let's see with our own eyeballs how education reform is going. While we're at it, why don't we get a load of how much good Sheff v. O'Neil has done for the kids of Hartford. Get a good look at what we're buying for $500,000,000 per year?peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-20930965790108409152014-12-07T13:39:27.052-05:002014-12-07T13:39:27.052-05:00“If the truth pinches, wear it.”
----------------...“If the truth pinches, wear it.” <br />----------------<br />The truth that nobody wants to accept, certainly not out loud, is that the primary qualitative difference between government school districts is the students. (If not nature, than certainly lack of nurture.) I am actually sympathetic with teacher desire for plausibly reachable standards, when so much of education is out of their hands. Granted, their self-serving complaints in the key of political correctness are humorous. I am also sympathetic with taxpayers who don't want to pay teachers or administrators for the bloated, bureaucratic, monopolistic monstrosity that is our education "system," I consider myself fortunate that I wasn't arrested for child abuse when I allowed my kid kid to attend HPS for seven years. Curious that guys like Eric Holder don't crack teacher heads as enthusiastically as cop cabezas. Is there not a history of white liberal oppression leading to that notorious Achievement Gap? Don't minority-community Americans distrust Big Education, if not Western Civ altogether?<br />---------<br />HARTFORD — The Hartford Federation of Teachers has expressed concern to the superintendent over higher academic goals for students this school year, saying the goals are excessive and causing undue stress on educators.<br />..."This inverted equation is meant to close the achievement gap," Delaney said. "I understand that; I get it. I understand this principle and strive for it every day I come here to work. It is the thought that drives me to demand rigor from all my students."<br /><br />But, she added, "Don't ask me to achieve a one-size-fits-all growth when you have not achieved equity at all schools" http://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hartford-cityline/hc-hartford-teachers-union-1120-20141119-story.htmlpeter brushnoreply@blogger.com