He HATES public schools; after all, he never went to one. And he thinks test scores should go into teacher evals, even though special education teachers and "specials" on the elementary and secondary level (art, music, computer, physical education, home and careers, shop teachers, etc.) don't have anything to do with standardized tests.
The ONLY good thing is the proposal to eliminate the silly 2014 goal:
A new goal, which would replace the 2014 universal proficiency deadline, would be for all students to leave high school “college or career ready.” Currently more than 40 states are collaborating, in an effort coordinated by the National Governors Association and encouraged by the administration, to write common standards defining what it means to be a graduate from high school ready for college or a career.
The new standards will also define what students need to learn in earlier grades to advance successfully toward high school graduation.
Of course this means even MORE inappropriate curriculum for kids, thus creating even MORE special education, i.e., underclass, students.
Not to mention what will happen in colleges and universities:
Not only will funding and teacher pay be based on test scores in this brave new world of corporate schooling, but teacher credentialing programs will be approved by the Feds based on a program's history of producing test scores. Implications? Well, as we see in Illinois and New York, two of the states that have made their RTTT intial bribe acceptance packages public, these states have drunk the Dunc's Kool-Aid by undercutting, in one fell swoop, entire teacher credentialing and accreditation requirements in favor of self-certifying permanent temp agencies like Teach for America. Gone are required knowledge of child development, school psychology and sociology, history of education, educational theory, teaching methods courses, student teaching, special populations, etc. Professional teachers? A thing of the past, just like the professional associations they were a part of.
Just think: A bunch of know-nothings taking alternative "certification" programs which further deprofessionalizes teaching, not to mention TFAs, who are nothing more than temps.
Duncan and Obama, both of whom have NO CLUE about teaching AT ALL, push inappropriate teacher preparation programs, inappropriate teacher evaluation proposals, and inappropriate curriculum for children, and they are doing untold damage to millions of kids as a result.
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