There is WAY too much emphasis on standardized testing. Despite the research that these tests are unreliable measures of school performance, they still seem to be the focus of teacher evaluations. What happened to measuring school performance by what kids can actually do in school; they writing they can produce, the problems they can solve, the goals that they meet. This measure is just another way to privatize education and to unfund schools and teachers that work hard to ensure that all kids succeed. Don't be fooled, NJ is not creating a balanced approach in teacher evaluations. If half of what counts relies on a standardized test, then the tests will all outweigh all other evidence.
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