Comments on: Citing tenure law, New York barred from Gates Foundation help (updated)

By: peter

peter — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:05:24 +0000

The law at issue states;

a. evaluation of the extent to which the teacher successfully utilized

analysis of available student performance data and other relevant infor-

mation when providing instruction but the teacher shall not be granted

or denied tenure based on student performance data;

b. peer review by other teachers, as far as practicable; and

c. an assessment of the teacher’s performance by the teacher’s build-

ing principal or other building administrator in charge of the school or

program.

What concerns me is the lack of a defense for what I consider a reasonable safeguard against mindless dependence on test scroes.

By: ceolaf wolfhelm

ceolaf wolfhelm — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:14:20 +0000

Strong arming by out of state interest and the federal government in userpation of local interested to push for an entirely unproven and unsubstantiated change to one the the core elements of our system of schooling?

Wow. Wonderful. Thank god for Bill Gates and everything he touches.

By: insiderknowledge

insiderknowledge — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:26:59 +0000

All I can say when i read this is good for the tenure law.. Anything that gets in the way of that blood money coming here is fine with me. This is an usurpation of power by the federal gov’t which has no right to mandate education since it is a power that goes to the states under the constitution.I know we set precedent for this type of power grab when the government basically did the same thing with the highways but driving and education are two entirely different things.

By: Leonie Haimson

Leonie Haimson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:58:37 +0000

I dont get it; didn’t the Gates foundation just give a big grant to NY’s teacher evaluation project? What are they doing, just trying to throw their weight around?