[NLA] accountability?

[AWilder106@aol.com]

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You can't do "statistics' when the information has been all messed up by changing definitions, changing policies, changing students--you have no data base.  Hal Beder pointed this out a couple of days ago.  When teachers themselves start changing the readability of tests by extending time, in the case he referred to, the data fudging only results in figures that make the said test look just fine--and  continue to be used.  The data fudging doesn't work, policy maker types just base their conclusions on poor data thinking it is OK data. In the long run (next year)it doesn't help the students, in the short run (today)in your classroom it may.

Find creative solutions--sit up and scream, for instance.  David Rosen gave testimony on the NRS in New Hampshire last fall.  It sounded then as though he were listened to.

But people who sound like loose canons often lose their jobs, so political adroitness is  a skill worth  learning.

Andrea
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