Re: NCLB help!!!!

[Rick Parkany <rparkany@BORG.COM>]

Oh yes, Juanita:        that AEA position statement and some others for your documentation mill on NCLB:

American Evaluation Association Position Statement on HIGH STAKES TESTING In PreK-12 Education:
http://www.eval.org/hst3.htm
High stakes testing leads to under-serving or mis-serving all students, especially the most needy
and vulnerable, thereby violating the principle of ?do no harm.?  The American Evaluation
Association opposes the use of tests as the sole or primary criterion for making decisions with
serious negative consequences for students, educators, and schools.  The AEA supports systems of
assessment and accountability that help education.

AND the others on the HOPE site:

HoPE = Higher Potential Education Concerned New York State Parents and Educators :
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/Standards/HOPE/EthicalStandardsInEvaluationAndTesting.html

Rick Parkany wrote:
>
> > Let me save the taxpayers' money on the study.  The state is free to refuse resources under ESEA.  That would shrink the state education budget by around 7-10 percent.  I'm sure the citizens of Washington would just jump at the chance to make up the difference.
> >
> > Art
>
> Well, Art: DO take the time to read Jerry's excellent critique.
>
> I heard him speak its theme @ AEA2002 (AmEvaluationAssoc)last month in WashDC. He was invited by Dr.
> Sandra Mathison to sing the *swan song* of the AEA's select committee's year long work for the AEA
> Board of Directors and whose task it was to have formed the AEA's position statement on high-stakes
> testing (the first political action of its kind on the part of that organization--see ref, below).
>
> Congratulations, again, Sandra! a truly remarkable achievement for such a staid organization in so
> many ways--but, thanks to work such as this and Jerry's presentation, the AEA is becoming more
> ethically & moarally conscious: no small feat, this.
>
> At any rate:    the case has ben made quite clearly by Jerry's research & inquiry that:
>
>         ...by ADDing in the COSTs of yearly *scientific* testing
>         (in the grades mandated), Fed(?!) and/OR state-tax based
>         AND by SUBTRACTing the STATIC level in FUNDing by TitleI
>         (aka, LNCB) available for *remediation* (aka teach-to-test
>         *Academic Intervention Services* that rob liberal arts
>         curriculum of the *lower half of the bell curve* kids,
>         THAT,when all the CASH settles:
>
>         the NET Gain is NEGATIVE!
>
>         READ:   It COSTS more for the districtthan turning down
>         the *hook*: Title I--it's only bait, Art...dead bait!
>
> DO read Jerry's work, Art: his style is pleasant and easy, get away from those numbers m'Man and
> READ Jerry's work:
> Education Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency
> http://www.america-tomorrow.com/bracey/EDDRA/
>
> Thus, words like this that Jerry offers to us go along way to validating my predictions to this list
> and to proving the quite wild claim I made three years ago, that:
>
> IF the true costs be known (in BOTH financial AND political terms) of HST;
> AND
> after our struggle takes deep effect:
> THE POLITICIANS WILL LEAVE EDUCATION TO WHOMEVER DID IT BEFORE!
>
> As I said: They will have found out that HST education is TOO expensive and too political for them
> to stand; in the end, the height of these stakes wil NOT reach their offices, and they will leave
> the filed of battle as did the US in Viet Nam
>
> ...BUT:
>
> we've GOT to be ready in the LURCH w/a plan to put in when they DO leave or we will be neglecting
> the political vacuum of the century and have nothing to fill it with... ;-} rap.
>
> REF:
> THE 11TH BRACEY REPORT ON
> The Condition of Public Education:
> http://www.america-tomorrow.com/bracey/EDDRA/bracey11.htm
> By Gerald W. Bracey posted with permission from the October 2001 issue of Kappan
> Art Burke wrote:
> >
> > Let me save the taxpayers' money on the study.  The state is free to refuse resources under ESEA.  That would shrink the state education budget by around 7-10 percent.  I'm sure the citizens of Washington would just jump at the chance to make up the difference.
> >
> > Art
> >
> > >>> Jedoyon@AOL.COM 12/03/02 10:02AM >>>
> > In a message dated 12/3/2002 9:51:40 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > rparkany@BORG.COM writes:
> >
> > > is the product of Bubbaism
> >
> > Well, the man in the white house is the best evidence AGAINST Social
> > Promotion I can think of.  And, as I told the teacher writing the column,
> > when I am superintendent, the first operation I set up, utilizing the highly
> > capable staff at OSPI rather than importing expensive outside consultants,
> > will be a feasibility study on ESEA REFUSAL.
> >
> > Analize that.
> > Juanita
> >

--
"Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust!
Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit
Hat dir selbst das Feld bereit',
Auf dem du bluehen musst." JS Bach: Bauern Kantata
Richard A. Parkany: SUNY@Albany
Prometheus Educational Services
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/
Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA

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