A Seat At The Table: Teachers Reclaiming Assessment Through Rethinking Accountability:

[LWolf]

by Chris Gallagher

This 9 yo article is, unfortunately, still more than relevant.


It's grievous and infuriating to see that we still don't have a place at the table.

<snip>


Distrust of teachers is carefully nurtured by the testing industry to keep the present educational power structure intact. Under that power structure, students are shaped to the specifications of experts whom they will never meet and who may never have to set foot inside a classroom. That situation has got to change, Mr. Gallagher warns.

Has anything changed? I don't think so.

<snips>

"A fundamental but rarely noted irony infuses public discourse on 'accountability.' While teachers/school experts are being held hyper-accountable, the 'experts' in the assessment industry are given virtual carte blanche: a nearly unfettered marketplace, very few governmental restrictions, and the 'right' to protect what they consider proprietary information."

"If the assessment industry has been given a seat at the head of the table of education reform, teachers haven't been given a seat at all; they haven't even been invited."

"Schools ought to be accountable not to corporate entities, remote educational experts, or some restless national audience created by mass media, but rather to their local communities."

More:

http://www.nde.state.ne.us/assessment/documents/ASeatatTheTable.pdf

[Dinger]

1. Yes It Would Be Nice To Have A Seat At The Table

I'll keep hoping. Don't think it will happen in the next 3 .5 years though.

[LWolf]

2. It's not looking like it.

Not that I'm going to quit talking about it, lol.