New York may soon ditch its controversial teacher certification exam New York’s prospective teachers may no longer be required to take a controversial national assessment to get certified, according to a state proposal unveiled this week. State education officials are proposing to remove the exam known as the edTPA, and would instead require teacher preparation programs to come up with a replacement. The edTPA aims to assess the skills needed for high quality instruction based on a portfolio of work from would-be educators, including video recordings of them teaching, their lesson plans, analyses of their students’ learning progress, and reflections of their classroom practices. The exam, administered by testing company Pearson, comes with a $300 fee. The exam’s critics worry it is a barrier to diversifying the teaching workforce and is exacerbating teacher shortages. New York state officials said Black test takers were nearly twice as likely to fail the edTPA compared to their white or Hispanic peers, Chalkbeat reported in 2017. (At the time, a Chalkbeat analysis found that people of color also disproportionately failed other certification tests.) Hispanic teacher candidates in Washington state — which was first, along with New York, to require the edTPA — were more than three times as likely to fail the exam when compared to white candidates, a 2016 study found. New York officials declined to provide the latest pass-fail data for the edTPA. ___________________________ More dumbing down of the educational system because they don't like the results of objective testing.
This country has been dumb a very long time and will continue to be as long as the confederate states are still apart of America. I wish they hurry up.This time we will let them go.
State Education Department Proposes Changes to Teacher Certification Requirements to Reduce Barriers to Certification While Maintaining Rigorous Standards ______________________ Just not as rigorous.
it should be noted that the edTPA requirements used in New York are already considered far less rigorous than the PRAXIS standards used by most other states. Soon New York will simply check someone for a pulse before placing them in a classroom.