d'urville
04-14-2008, 03:40 PM
Teachers in the state are subject to mandatory testing, which really means three failures = one success:
Every year, hundreds of would-be classroom teachers fail the MTEL, the Massachusetts Test for Education Licensure. According to Charles Glenn at the Boston University School of Education, independent evaluations of teacher tests like the MTEL put the skills required at the eighth- to 10th-grade level.
Unfortunately, this is still too high for about 40 percent of the test takers each year. So last week, the Democrats of the Massachusetts Senate voted unanimously for a waiver program covering wannabe teachers who fail the test at least three times. Many of them would be allowed to teach ninth-grade English, for example, even after demonstrating that they couldn’t actually pass it.
Full article: link (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1085399&srvc=home&position=rated)
And they wonder why the students at public schools are failing.
Every year, hundreds of would-be classroom teachers fail the MTEL, the Massachusetts Test for Education Licensure. According to Charles Glenn at the Boston University School of Education, independent evaluations of teacher tests like the MTEL put the skills required at the eighth- to 10th-grade level.
Unfortunately, this is still too high for about 40 percent of the test takers each year. So last week, the Democrats of the Massachusetts Senate voted unanimously for a waiver program covering wannabe teachers who fail the test at least three times. Many of them would be allowed to teach ninth-grade English, for example, even after demonstrating that they couldn’t actually pass it.
Full article: link (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1085399&srvc=home&position=rated)
And they wonder why the students at public schools are failing.