Paul Vallas looks to bring back the bad old days of high-stakes testing. | ✍️ joravben
In the aftermath of the Vallas reign, the drop-out rate went as high as 50 percent, proving what teachers tried to tell us: All of that summer school test prep had little to do with actually learning things.As one of the old guys still standing from the Daley days of yore, I suppose it’s up to me to tell the rest of you a thing or two about Paul Vallas, the man Chicago seems eager to elect as its mayor.
At one point, he created his own system-wide two-week-long test that all high schoolers had to take even though they already had to take two other standardized tests. It was called The Chicago Academic Standards Examinations . Just about any teacher would tell you it was a monumentally stupid waste of time; mercifully, Arne Duncan put CASEBut those teachers would probably tell you that off the record.
They’re not supposed to be pass-or-fail struggles for survival. They’re supposed to be barometers for teachers and parents to figure out what a student needs help with. Vallas was proud of his sternness. He and CPS board president Gery Chico, another Daley appointee, held press conferences, bragging about all the kids who had to take summer school.
As always, Vallas and Chico were cheered on by their pom-pom squad in the media. “In the end, students and their parents need to recognize and accept the reality that at some point they have to take a test and pass it,” theOne more time—these are not supposed to be pass-or-fail tests. In the aftermath of the Vallas reign, the drop-out rate went as high as 50 percent, proving what teachers tried to tell us: All of that summer school test prep had little to do with actually learning things.
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