Grading the Graders?
Justin Bathon on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 11:13AM Whoa! It seems this accountability thing is getting
contagious. The Michigan Board of Education will now begin issuing yearly
grades on the state's schools of education through a system of annual report
cards. Read the Detroit Free Press article
and judge for yourself, but if the factors listed in the article are the only
factors under consideration ... well, this reminds me a whole lot of another
accountability system I know.
The problem is how do you compare a small, private religious school like Concordia to a huge state institution like Michigan State?
Their missions are totally
different and it should be acceptable that their teacher education
graduates
are different as well. Just like the NCLB accountability policies, I
know there
are lots of reasons for it. However, don't we value institutions for
their
difference? If we wanted all the students to look and act like Michigan
State grads, wouldn't we just send them all to Michigan State? There
are lots of questions here, and from the looks of the policy, not a lot
of answers ... except one, the grade.
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