NYC Magazine » standardized exams http://www.nycmagazine.com Covering all of New York City Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Students’ Standardized Test Scores Will Factor Into Teachers’ Tenure According to Mayor http://www.nycmagazine.com/2009/11/25/students%e2%80%99-standardized-test-scores-will-factor-into-teachers%e2%80%99-tenor-according-to-mayor/ http://www.nycmagazine.com/2009/11/25/students%e2%80%99-standardized-test-scores-will-factor-into-teachers%e2%80%99-tenor-according-to-mayor/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:18:16 +0000 Yelena Mandenberg http://www.nycmagazine.com/?p=701 NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced in a statement on Wednesday that, starting immediately, New York City public schools would begin to use test scores to gauge which teachers should or should not receive tenure.

This move has been bitterly opposed by the teachers union, which claims that this is putting too much weight on standardized exams, such as the citywides, and regents exams.

Although most do agree that standardized tests are not a good measure of students’ capabilities, the state government still puts a ton of stock in them. Standardized tests are used to decide teacher and principal bonus pay, assign A through ...continue reading]]> http://www.nycmagazine.com/2009/11/25/students%e2%80%99-standardized-test-scores-will-factor-into-teachers%e2%80%99-tenor-according-to-mayor/feed/ 0