NY Post-
‘Literacy’ test for teachers may be nixed
State education officials plan to scrap a literacy exam given to prospective teachers and allow certification for some applicants who fail a performance assessment test — moves that critics warned will weaken the pool of candidates.
The state Board of Regents will likely vote early next week on whether to ax the Academic Literacy Skills Test, one of four exams that teacher wannabes have to pass for certification, officials said Monday.
The Regents will also consider changes to one of the other three prerequisite exams for would-be educators, the Teacher Performance Assessment, or edTPA.
Under that proposal, applicants who just barely fail the edTPA could still be certified based on other factors, including teacher recommendations.
Sources said the moves will likely be approved, leading to outcry from those who believe they are important assessment tools.
“It’s alarming because we’ve now abandoned or watered down the teacher evaluation process, and now we’re lowering the bar for entry certification as well,” said Charles Sahm, director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute.
The literacy test has been accused of skewing against minorities and being redundant — but Sahm called it an important tool in bringing in qualified candidates.
“I think it’s important that we increase the share of black and Hispanic teachers, and we certainly don’t have enough here or anywhere. But I don’t think this is the way to go,” Sahm said. “This is a literacy exam. If you’re going to be a teacher in New York state, this is a criteria you should be able to meet.”
What does it tell you that the left thinks a competency test is a threat to minorities?
It tells you the left thinks minorities are incompetent.
And they are the “party of intelligentsia.”
HT/ JS
So now teachers can be interchangeable with politicians?
O tempora! O mores!
It is inconceivable, that with the help of the insufferable intelligentsia, the incompetent will be allowed to institutionally indoctrinate the incorrigible into a lifetime of insolvency. Thereby instituting an involuntary investment and redistribution of individual income in an attempt to intervene in the injustice of the involvement of inept individuals. Or something like that.
It would make more sense to raise the passing point to take account of grade inflation. This proposal is an insult to teachers of all ethnicities.
Idocracy was supposed to be a warning – not a blueprint.
Can’t wait until the AMA says heart surgeons need not worry about knowing the intricacies involving the four heart chambers.
part of the democrat plan to dumb down america
Stop to think……..there are 4 chambers?
I believe that cows have four-chambered hearts!
Gosh, I already thought that was a requirement!
“In other news, NYS is allowing Blind Seeing Eye Dogs to lead the Blind.”
“It’s only fair” said the DemonRat up for re-election.
NYS is nothing but a giant augur slowly burying itself.
Liberal Diversity at it’s best
They’ll replace this with a test to ensure teachers can make the mark for a hashtag, and correctly spell TLA’s.
NYS? New York Sity, right?
Ha ha ha!
How apropos!
A state mired in ignorance and corruption will GUARANTEE that the indigenous remain too ignorant to resist the corruption – and that only those sent to private schools will be educated enough to facilitate, and thus be enriched by, that corruption.
Gotta hand it to em, they read their constituency perfectly!
New York will be a vast mass of ignorant, drooling, nose-picking, in-communicative slaves plodding about the business of their masters.
izlamo delenda est …
Reverse Darwinism at work.
How the hell will anyone know the difference? The results under the current requirements are beyond horrid.
The illiterate are super protestors; they don’t know what they are protesting, but they are available bodies. Great voters, also, especially with democRAT’s ‘helping’ them complete their multiple absentee ballots.
The illiterate kids and teachers will be angry with low impulse control.
Oh great.