At last count, twenty-five comments were posted at Regulations.gov regarding new proposals to incorporate punitive Value-Added Models of assessment to college- and university-based teacher education programs. This week the Edustank staff has weighed in against such proposals (see stories below), which we feel will work to undermine local and institutional control and have at their central reasons for existence the same motives as VAM in K12: To destroy the best of educational institutions such that competing, private-market alternatives sponsored by the same folks who push the virtues of VAM in the first place can be foisted upon a public.
Please contact your representatives to tell them to work against the approval of these regulations and leave your comment on the *Regulations.gov site* as well.
In the meantime, please allow my colleague Ed Reform Critical-Boxer to offer his opinions on VAMs:
AND eager for your help. Have a story of power, manipulation, self-interest or injustice which needs attention? Let me know and we'll let the world discover "what's that smell."
"If you're a profession of sheep, then you'll be run by wolves." -- David C. Berliner
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: Everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- Paulo Freire
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