[Fredslist] Today's NY Times includes son's research on NY Schools

Mon Oct 11 15:21:36 EDT 2010

 Thx Raj,
Thx. on Jonathan.
Issue is not the UFT.  It has always been political meddling and failures of administration and supervision at 110 Livingston St and now the Tweed Building.  I was a school board member (dist. 26).  I also became expert on school budgeting as a City Council aide before I ran for the school board.  All this stuff about rubber rooms and bad teachers has to do with adms. taking the easy way out rather than doing what they need to document incompetent or the corrupt.  All those tools remain in place.
This column I wrote almost seven years back this applies:
DOE must intervene in teacher disciplinary issues  (December 4, 2003)

Folks may also find these of interest:
Maybe Send the Management "Back to School"  (July 31, 2009)
Adequate funding enables vital school programs  (July 8, 2004)
School changes must not shift focus from learning  (September 4, 2003)

-Corey

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From: Raj Goel, CISSP <raj at brainlink.com>
To: Corey Bearak <bearak at aol.com>; fredslist at gothamnetworking.com
Sent: Mon, Oct 11, 2010 3:00 pm
Subject: Re: [Fredslist] Today's NY Times includes son's research on NY Schools

Corey,

  Congrats, proud papa!

   I'm glad to see real research, with hard data, backing up what every kid 
who's taken the SAT has known.

   If you have past tests, taking them repeatedly increases test scores 
(OOPS....I just gave away Princeton Review's and Kaplan's business models).

    Between the Mayor's & NY State's adjustment downwards (yay!) Of the scores, 
better accountability and Waiting For Superman, I suspect we have the foundation 
for a real revolution in Education.

   I'm all for 
- tougher tests, 
- evaluating schools, principals, teachers, kids AND parents against standard 
metrics
- breaking the chokehold UFT has on education

(Yes, I AM an advocate for better education in STEM).

"Corey Bearak" <bearak at aol.com> wrote:

>
> I posted this to Twitter (Facebook and LinkedIn) earlier today:
>                            
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>            Proud parents here.  NY Times page 1 education story featured our 
son's work http://tiny.cc/w192t -- Check the graphics http://tiny.cc/idwlp
>(The reference is to Jonathan Marc Bearak who when he completes his paperwork 
will join our Young Pros.)
>
>At the very end of the article, it states:
>
>"Although the Regents did notimmediately opt to create an entirely new test, 
Ms. Tisch and DavidSteiner, the new education commissioner, asked Professor 
Koretz, whohad been rebuffed in previous requests, to analyze the ones that 
werein use. His conclusion — and that of another researcher, JenniferL. Jennings 
— was that the tests had become too easy, and hence thescores were inflated. 
That led the State Education Department toraise the number of correct answers 
required to pass each test."
>
>Jonathan has been working with Ms. Jennings since his undergrad days (One of 
his Queens College mentors, Prof. Andy Beveridge mentored Jennifer and brought 
them together), devised the models used in the research including the computer 
analytical programs and presented papers on the topic at two conferences this 
past summer.  Jonathan is a PhD Candidate in Sociology/ Institute of Education 
Sciences Predoctoral Fellow at New York University.  He is a CUNY Macaulay 
Honors graduate of Queens College.
> 
>
>
>Corey B. Bearak, Esq.
>Government & Public Affairs Counselor
>P.O. Box 135, Glen Oaks, NY  11004
>(718) 343-6779 * fax: (718) 225-3366
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