October 2, 2015
...King is a Brooklyn native (click here) who worked as a teacher and co-founded a charter school in Boston. He joined the education department in January after a turbulent tenure as commissioner of education for the state of New York, a position he assumed in 2011. He was a key architect of new teacher evaluations tied to test scores and played a key role in pushing New York to adopt new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards years before other states did the same.
King defended those moves, favored by Duncan and the Obama administration, even as they made him the target of public outrage. Parents saw their children’s test scores fall and teachers unions called for his ouster.
Duncan, 50, has been the longest-serving education secretary and, by most accounts, the most influential....
He hates unions.
April 14, 2015
By Al Baker
...King is a Brooklyn native (click here) who worked as a teacher and co-founded a charter school in Boston. He joined the education department in January after a turbulent tenure as commissioner of education for the state of New York, a position he assumed in 2011. He was a key architect of new teacher evaluations tied to test scores and played a key role in pushing New York to adopt new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards years before other states did the same.
King defended those moves, favored by Duncan and the Obama administration, even as they made him the target of public outrage. Parents saw their children’s test scores fall and teachers unions called for his ouster.
Duncan, 50, has been the longest-serving education secretary and, by most accounts, the most influential....
He hates unions.
April 14, 2015By Al Baker
Under sustained attack(click here) over new standardized tests and learning standards, the New York State
education commissioner told an audience on Thursday that “we’re not
retreating” and that the constant criticism was damaging an overdue
effort to raise student achievement.
“The
road to change will always be bumpier for some than for others,” the
commissioner, John B. King Jr., said in a speech to officials, educators
and public policy students at New York University. “But that’s no
reason to stop.
“We teach our children to meet failure and challenge with renewed effort. Adults must do the same.”...
Where does anyone in leadership of any agency get the idea they don't have to listen to students, teachers and parents? Where does that come from? He is no less than "Father knows best."
Adults, mother and fathers, don't appreciate the system knows better than they do. I think parents and grandparents do just fine all those pre-school years. What changes in the confidence in parents once the child hits school age? To my knowledge parents don't live in caves.
