Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Superintendent Calls for Testing Moratorium

It's rare for a school superintendent to speak truth to power. But that's exactly what Montgomery County Superintendent Joshua Starr did.

According to Valerie Strauss's blog in The Washington Post Starr stated:

  • That the nation needs a three year moratorium on standardized testing.
  • That the nation "stop the insanity" of  evaluating teachers according to student test scores because it is “bad science.” 
  • That the best education reform in country has been Obama's health-care reform.
  • That a good way to create assessments for Common Core-aligned curriculum would be to crowd-source the development and let teachers design them rather than have corporations do it. 
Joshua Starr leads the 17th largest school district in the country.

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