This announcement «misses the point that we need curriculum reform, not
just exam reform», says the CBI chief.
Not exact matches
Mr. Cuomo had declared he would boost education funding by
just over $ 1 billion only if the legislature agreed to adopt his
reform plans — which included state receivership of failing schools, an increase in the charter cap, new teacher evaluations based on state
exams, and changes to teacher tenure.
However, using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and from New York's state
exams, Dr. Aaron Pallas of Teachers College demonstrated that between 2003,
just before Mayor Bloomberg's
reforms had been implemented, and 2011, the achievement gap demonstrated by the NAEP actually rose and the gap measured by state
exams closed by a mere 1 %.