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The Teacher Wars
Chapter 8
"Very Disillusioned"
How Teacher…
The Teacher Wars
Chapter 8
"Very Disillusioned"
How Teacher Accountability Displaced Desegregation and Local Control
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A Nation at Risk harshly critiqued American's teachers and secured a Washington toehold for the national standards and accountability education movement. p. 165
focused on topics similar to early 20th century progressivism: standardized testing, numbers-driven evaluation of teachers, and merit pay. p. 165
promoted idea that teachers are the primary levers for improving the nation's and students standard of living.
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Bell created an infamous wall chart a the DOE that ranked states on test scores, graduation rates, teacher salaries, and school funding levels, which marked the first time that Washington set states in educational competition with one another. p.167
united across the aisle under the banner of failing schools; and they joined Democrats wish for greater school funding, and justified education spending p. 168
if scores proved low, funding could be justified as an emergency necessity. If high, it could prove that politicians claims were working. p. 168
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said American was committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disamament. p. 170
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Berliner and Biddle write The Manufactured Crisis in response and cite that American education is in good shape, noting that low teacher pay and a new class of students testing for college accounted for other results p. 173
Bell was a former public school chemistry teacher with a PhD in education who had worked on public university administration p. 164
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Bell privately disagreed with Reagan's education plans, and produced A Nation at Risk, one of the most influential federal documents ever published p. 165
Bell believed in the power of public education but also the desire to test, quantify, and rationalize. He was fascinated by a course he took on educational tests and measurements, focusing on IQ. p. 166
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As a superintendent in Utah, he instituted a merit pay plan with an option for teachers to be paid based on their National Teacher Examination scores and how their students scored on standardized tests. The Utah Education Association successfully lobbied the stage legislature to withdraw funding for the plan, and voters rejected a ballot initiative to raise taxes to fund it. p. 166
teacher competency and higher order thinking questioning was still vague in 1975; teacher education courses just added lingo but didnt' change curriculum
according to research from the National Council on Teacher Quality, a single year turned out to not be enough time to train teachers in the pedagogical skills needed for the broad range of subjects teachers must tackle. p. 168
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