Reposted with permission from Save Maine Schools – Helping You Navigate Next-Gen Ed Reform.
And so, unbeknownst to most of the public, our schools – and the teaching profession – are being remade in order to facilitate this market.
Organizations like the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), formed to advance impact investing, are developing banks of metrics on social services like education to help inform investors as they build their portfolios, while nonprofits like Strivetogether are building public-private data sharing networks across cities.
Across the country, teachers are being asked to collect, record, and slog through mountains of data that “experts” insist is meant to improve their practice.
There are pre-assessments and post-assessments, habits of work rubrics, writing prompts, social and emotional screeners, standards-based grading systems, RTI data, student learning objectives, professional growth goals, student surveys, self evaluations, administrator evaluations, office discipline referrals, results from progress monitoring programs …the…
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