15-0558 The Board of Education will engage the membership, administrative leadership in an all-day discussion of "What School Boards Can Do - Reform Governance for Urban Schools" by and with author Donald R. McAdams.
· Welcome and Introductions
· Effective Governance
· Relationships
· Process and Procedures
· Next Steps
Enemy of the Good, Donald R. McAdams defended high stakes testing.
"Obviously, test data can be given more weight than they deserve, and there is a danger that administrators might use test data inappropriately to make personnel decisions. But there seems to be little evidence that this has happened and a huge body of evidence that high-stakes tests of all kinds focus school systems on teaching and learning."
Enemy of the Good, Donald R. McAdams defended high stakes testing.
"Obviously, test data can be given more weight than they deserve, and there is a danger that administrators might use test data inappropriately to make personnel decisions. But there seems to be little evidence that this has happened and a huge body of evidence that high-stakes tests of all kinds focus school systems on teaching and learning."
Wrong! NCLB high-stakes did much harm.