Test meant to screen teachers instead weeded out minorities

ABC News ^ | 03/11/17 | Karen Matthews

[Cboldt]

State Board of Stifle (or Punish) Achievement.

See Lord of the Flies, played by adults.

[ConservativeMind]

The test is not racist. The teachers are stupid and it shows they can’t do the work.

[Gene Eric]

Perpetuating the idiocy.

The Left intentionally manufactures stupidity.

[chajin]

while places like South Korea, India and Japan are probably laughing their butts off.

OK, a little off topic, but earlier this year a collection of Japanese teachers of English in Japan bombed the TOEIC, or Test Of English in International Communication, a test that shows the extent to which one is able to converse in English. OTOH, I have no doubt that Japanese teachers of STEM could ace any standardized test at practically any level. This is because Japan wants workers who can do technology, and in general does not care whether or not they can speak English. In Japan as in the US, you get the education you want; the difference is that in Japan, there are subjects the nation wants the children, not just to be taught, but to actually know, while in the US, there are large groups of people who do not want children to actually know anything tradeable in the marketplace.

[right way right]

Affirmative action is suicide by stupid.

[GreyFriar]

Thank you.

[moovova]

"...a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers..."

Why in the world would you want teachers that can read and write?

[Reno89519]

Why not instead celebrate the teachers who do pass and offer remedial instruction for those that don’t. Send them back to school to learn, not into the classroom to teach. Stupid to lower standards to meet some diversity goal. Students lose. ...and that is color blind and without regard to ethnicity.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks...

[relictele]

New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing it.

Stunning moment of concise clarity from the MSM. Cause and effect.

[GOPJ]

It did not “weed out minorities,” it weeded out those who lacked to requite skills to teach what they were being hired to teach.

The solution isn't to drop the test - the solution is to test MORE minorities.

Test 200 black 'teachers' and you'll get an average of 81 people passing the test. Test 100 white 'teachers' and you'll get 64 passing. Bingo - MORE black teachers qualified to be hired. It's simple - just do the math.

(46 percent of Hispanic test takers and 41 percent of black test takers passed it on the first try, compared with 64 percent of white candidates.+

[DoughtyOne]

If they aren’t, they should be.

[VeniVidiVici]

More proof that the state really doesn’t care what type of education your children get

[GOPJ]

It did not “weed out minorities,” it weeded out those who lacked to requite skills to teach what they were being hired to teach.

The solution isn't to drop the test - the solution is to test MORE minorities.

Test 200 black 'teachers' and you'll get an average of 81 people passing the test. Test 100 white 'teachers' and you'll get 64 passing. Bingo - MORE black teachers qualified to be hired. It's simple - just do the math. Surely Karen Matthews is smart enough to ask about this, right?

(46 percent of Hispanic test takers and 41 percent of black test takers passed it on the first try, compared with 64 percent of white candidates.+

[relictele]

I’ve always said we have too much literacy in education.

Maybe they can finger paint or have stories read to them, preferably about two mommies, gay adoption, etc.

[Calvin Locke]

In MA, then-Gov. Mitt Romney had to have the entire world-wide LDS membership pray that a local superintendent of schools would eventually pass the teaching certification test in English.

The guy was from PR.

[null and void]

Worth repeating:

Better to have no standard than to reveal and deal with truth

[Let's Roll]

Well, if the test had any kind of standards at all, that is what would happen.

[arrogantsob]

What a shock!!! I can’t believe this. Next test should be restricted to the ability to grunt.

[I want the USA back]

Test after test shows the same thing over and over again. Authorities don’t like what it proves to them. Rather than admit truth, they scrap the tests. That’s delusional, and standard practice for liberals.