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...runs down from Hanover, NH to Boston, MA, we have our own Dean Wormer in the form of Governor A. Paul Cellucci, who seems to think the teachers of Massachusetts are no better than the Delta frat boys. He has been holding teachers and teacher candidates on double-secret probation since the institution of a competency exam last spring, blasting away on his ceremonial, Silber-plated whistle...
...unfair because it was not geared specifically to school curriculums. In Massachusetts, which introduced its exam last spring, more than 80% of fourth-graders got a failing score or a "needs improvement" in English; half of all 10th-graders failed the math portion of the test. Governor Paul Cellucci calls the performance "unacceptable." Maybe so, but it's not surprising, says Harvard lecturer S. Paul Reville. "We were having difficulty reaching lower standards, and now we've raised the bar by a factor...
...signing bonus money is financed by interest accrued from a $60 million endowment fund set up by a teacher-incentive bill signed into law last summer by Governor A. Paul Cellucci...
...understand where [Cellucci] is getting his educational advice. There's no correlation between teacher competency and taking tests," he said...
...While Cellucci has been fighting to test teachers, Massachusetts has introduced statewide student testing in the hopes of producing student accountability...