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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Monday, August 20, 2012 Education Ride 365: We Need Our Law Makers To Demonstrate 'Adequate Yearly Progress' Towards Education Policy Americans, on the whole, don't understand the particulars of school accountability schemes, federal nor state. This contributes to the common misconception across America that our public schools are failing en masse. Consider, as an example, the absurdity that is "Adequate Yearly Progress" as defined in legislation enacted by the Congress of the United States in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. A recent op-ed by Thomas Ratliff in the news-journal.com is a fine beginning to understanding the role AYP plays in what many in the know see as a very deliberate plan by private interests to shift education money out of the public sector and into private hands by delegitimizing the American public school system as a whole. Imposing upon them increasingly impossible to meet, false measures of school success through high-stakes standardized test accountability that very few Americans seem to even favor. Please take time to read his brief, yet informative op-ed here. One key overriding theme is summed up succinctly in this quote from the piece: One of the problems with AYP, just like the current Texas accountability
system, is it provides a very skewed report on the health of a school
district or campus based on the scores of one student sub-population on
one standardized test on one day of a 180-day school year. He concludes with the statement below that most every American I have talked to during Education Ride 365 regarding the state of education in America seems to agree with in spirit: It’s time for the Texas Legislature and the United States Congress to
achieve their own adequate yearly progress on reforming the
accountability systems for our public schools. The taxpayers deserve a
more transparent and accurate report of our schools. He is addressing readers in Texas. Insert your state's legislature, because all 50 states have work to do to if they wish to develop a true measure of public school success. Posted at 11:45 PM Keywords: Education Ride 365 , EdClick , Cycle Of Education , Accountabilty , Standardized Assessments , AYP , Adequate Yearly Progress 0 Comments |