Education Administration Reform. NOW.
Mar. 18th, 2009 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7'STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Lori Phanachone is a member of the National Honor Society, has a 3.9 grade point average and ranks seventh in the senior class of about 119 at Storm Lake High School.
'But school officials have told her she is considered to be illiterate based on her refusal to satisfactorily complete the English Language Development Assessment, a test she says is demeaning and racist.
'On Wednesday, Phanachone finished serving three days of in-school suspension for what school administrators say is insubordination. She faces another three days for continuing her silent protest with a second refusal to take the test. According to a written statement presented to her Wednesday, Phanachone said, she could be suspended again and then expelled for a fourth refusal.'
As I said, elsewhere: This kind of Test-Based "achievement" monitoring is being used as the basis for educational progression, around the country, and in federally mandated programs. I want this story and the idiocy of this situation to get so much press that we have to completely rethink that policy paradigm.
I quote, again:
"Education is empowerment and, therefore, the success of any educational experience is measured in how empowered the recipient believes he or she is." - Dr. Lorraine Wilson
'But school officials have told her she is considered to be illiterate based on her refusal to satisfactorily complete the English Language Development Assessment, a test she says is demeaning and racist.
'On Wednesday, Phanachone finished serving three days of in-school suspension for what school administrators say is insubordination. She faces another three days for continuing her silent protest with a second refusal to take the test. According to a written statement presented to her Wednesday, Phanachone said, she could be suspended again and then expelled for a fourth refusal.'
As I said, elsewhere: This kind of Test-Based "achievement" monitoring is being used as the basis for educational progression, around the country, and in federally mandated programs. I want this story and the idiocy of this situation to get so much press that we have to completely rethink that policy paradigm.
I quote, again:
"Education is empowerment and, therefore, the success of any educational experience is measured in how empowered the recipient believes he or she is." - Dr. Lorraine Wilson
