Re: Why does Stratman slander FairTest?

[Arthur Hu <ArthurH@TANGIS.COM>]

Wow, this is great. We've got the same problem from
republicans and other people here in washington who
say that the WASL can be fixed, there's nothing wrong
with 1209 (to quote Chris Vance, who ran for SPI last
time around)

I traditionally loathed Fairtests's position on tests
like the SAT which are actually very good tests for what
they try to do, then they claim to support "performance
based" or "authentic assessment" which is the very
basis for this new generation of assessments which are
far worse than the SAT and mulitple choice tests because
they are even more difficult and removed from actual
instruction and distribution of actual student ability.

Let's see Fairtest get some spine and actually oppose the
entire idea of progressive standards based reform.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Stratman [mailto:Newdem@AOL.COM]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 9:18 AM
To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
Subject: Re: Why does Stratman slander FairTest?


Monty--

Wow, what a reaction! Honestly, I did not mean to slander or misrepresent
FairTest/CARE's position on the Education Reform Act of 1993. I've been on
these lists for a year and a half, and I thought that you did support it. So
apparently did the student new to CARE whose question I was responding to.
If
you recall, he wrote (5/17/00):

"I am posting now because I would like to know the actual wording of the
Educational Reform Act of 1993 and which corporate entities were behind it
and how directly it relates to the creation of MCAS.  Dave Stratman and the
New Democracy has claimed that this Ed. Reform Act itself is part of a
corporate strategy for dismantling our public schools.  Experience tells me
that this is very likely, but reading New Democracy literature has left me
unconvinced about the Ed. Reform Act and still mostly in the dark about how
the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, MassInsight, the Pioneer
Institute and other corporate forces relate to each other and Ed. Reform.  I
am trying to figure out the history that led us to where we are today.

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