Posted on 02/08/2022 3:20:09 PM PST by Rummyfan
Imagine how bad it would be for them if they didn’t vote democrat
There was another Baltimore education story last year where a student was denied high school graduation because he had missed, oh, over eighty per cent of his attendance. And then his mother was incensed that they didn't let him graduate!
I went to pblx scrool.
Feed lots for the prison system.
Citizens with little education are easily controlled. There is a specific reason for dumbing down our populace, and we simply stand by and let it happen.
In 2017, the state of New York passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
Regents Drop Teacher Literacy Test Seen as Discriminatory
By Kate Taylor
New York Times, March 13, 2017
The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.
The Regents also moved forward with a proposal that would allow some students who failed another test, aimed at evaluating practical skills like lesson planning and assessment, to be certified as teachers based on their grades and professors’ recommendations.
Together, the steps signal how much the Regents’ approach has changed under the current chancellor, Betty A. Rosa, after several years of efforts to raise the bar for entering the profession.
Under the previous chancellor, Merryl H. Tisch, the state created a set of more rigorous licensing exams. Among them was the Academic Literacy Skills Test, or ALST, which was intended to assess reading and analytical writing skills, and the edTPA, which requires candidates to submit a portfolio of work, including unedited videos of them interacting with students.
The literacy test proved challenging to many prospective teachers, but particularly for black and Hispanic candidates. An analysis done in 2014, the year the test was first administered, found that 64 percent of white candidates passed the test on the first try, while only 46 percent of Hispanic candidates and 41 percent of black candidates did.
Nonetheless, a federal judge who had found two older certification tests to be discriminatory ruled in 2015 that the ALST was not biased, because it measured skills that were necessary for teaching.
However, deans of education schools, especially those with large numbers of black and Hispanic students, disagreed, and argued that the exam was exacerbating a shortage of teachers of color. More than 80 percent of public-school teachers in the country are white, according to the federal Education Department, while a majority of public school students are not.
Others said that the exam was redundant, given the other requirements to become a teacher.
Michael Middleton, dean of the Hunter College School of Education, said in an interview on Monday that the battery of exams currently required of teacher candidates — four, in most cases — was onerous and expensive, and that eliminating the ALST was appropriate.
“We already know that our licensure candidates have a bachelor’s degree, which in my mind means they have basic literacy and communication skills,” Dr. Middleton said.
The state Education Department has said it will review another required licensing test, the Educating All Students exam, which measures teachers’ skills at reaching students with disabilities and those learning English, to see if it should be adjusted to also assess literacy skills.
The edTPA has not proved as difficult as the ALST: The overall pass rate is 77 percent, according to the state Education Department. But black candidates pass the test at rates lower than candidates of other races or ethnicities. A task force convened by the Regents, made up of deans and professors of education schools, as well as teachers and district superintendents, recommended recalibrating the passing score on the exam and allowing certain students who fall short of a passing score on the edTPA to become certified based on the recommendations of their teachers. The Regents agreed on Monday to move forward with that proposal.
Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, said that eliminating the literacy exam because of minority candidates’ performance on it was the wrong response.
“What we are effectively doing is perpetuating a cycle of underperformance,” she said.
“People are showing a tremendous amount of weakness by just backpedaling because they feel like it’s the politically sensible thing to do,” she added.
Even before Monday’s actions, the Regents had backed off the tougher requirements, instituting safety nets that allowed candidates who failed the edTPA to try to pass an older test to qualify, and allowed those who failed the ALST to show through their coursework and grades that they had the skills that the test measures.
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My sister and my BIL substitute teach in a county system in the Baltimore area. Per them, it is not unusual to have illiterate high school seniors.
It’s not a fault, it’s a feature
Which immediately tells you where the worst of the problem is.
I’ll bet they know modern “music” lyrics by heart. And all about other indoctrination.
Just as planned.
In other top stories, Baltimore is a hotbed for aspiring rappers.
This would be funny if the futures of the students weren’t in jeopardy.
Defund the Department of Education.
Baltimore school district is pumping out Democrats
Publik ejookashun.
22 years ago I worked in Greenpoint Brooklyn for Nestle that was running a spring water delivery depot there, and every so often we would have team meetings with all the delivery and warehouse guys most of whom grew up in NYC and were black and Hispanic
One meeting a new manager made the mistake of going around the table and having each employee read certain sections of the policy book. Doh! “T-T-Th th tha n-n-new..” The new manager kept having to finish the sentences for them “The new policy is...” After the 3rd guy he said “Well enough of that” lol
NYC is the absolute WORST when it comes to education, the absolute WORST. Almost every guy there was completely illiterate. This was 22 years ago when Giuliani was Mayor. I can’t even imagine what it’s like now after 8 years of DuhBlasio
It’s the “white” elephant in the room. The bell curve.
Are the “teachers” at the same level or lower?
For years in the city of Buffalo, the high school teachers were being given proficiency tests to see how they scored. These were the tests that the high school students were expected to pass to graduate from high school.
It seemed reasonable that a high school teacher ought to be able to at least pass those.
Well, every year the results were abominable and the very first thing out of the educrats mouths when the results were made public were shrieks and cries of “racism”.
Now, mind you, the results made public were only the final test results, with NO breakdown of demographics or anything.
The immediate claims of racism told everyone exactly who it was who did the worst on the test. And everyone knew it.
Throw a rock over a fence and the dog that yelps is the one that got hit.
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