Re: Disaster: Rising Test Scores

[Karen Canty <kvscanty@PACBELL.NET>]

George,

Wow...drop by drop, person by person, who knows....the world might
actually change if we have the "left coast" and the Midwest in agreement
about teachers, etc!!!!

Karen

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In a message dated 12/1/02 3:50:25 PM, kvscanty@PACBELL.NET writes:

<< I haven't seen
anything from the rest of the country or are you just not sharing with
the rest of us? >>

Yesterday my socks rolled up and down when the Chicago Sun-Times, one of
our
nemeses, responded to two Tribune articles on high teacher salaries, by
saying, in an editorial, that teachers should be making $100,000 per
year.

Could be. If the Bush guys overreached on "No Child," it might turn out
to be
the best thing sane democratic public education could have asked for.
The
corruption on the tutoring contracts, the charter school scams, and the
profits from the tests themselves will have everyone up in arms.

And finally, four years after we all first me here after I was sued for
$1
million for breaching "test security" maybe we can all demand, in one
voice,
that every test -- every question, every answer key, every rubric -- be
made
public to everyone once the children have been forced to take it. It's
called
democracy. Novel thought this year, but still with a little bite.

George N. Schmidt
Editor, Substance
5132 W. Berteau
Chicago, IL 60641

773-725-7502

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