Tests, Arizona, and IFTE

Three items today:

There's a frightening post today on Diane Ravitch's Education Week blog. Apparently the view inside the Obama administration is that we need even more tests.

NCTE has published a statement opposing the policy of the Arizona department of education which targets teachers with "accents."

And, on a more positive note, a reminder that the call for proposals for the April 2011 IFTE conference in New Zealand is now available.

Testing Teachers and National Standards

CEE member Peter Smagorinsky has a piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about using test scores to judge teachers.

Also, the final draft of the Common Core Standards is now available.