Setting the Record Straight « BLOGCEA: "Using 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) made the argument this week that Connecticut should be more like Massachusetts and New Jersey if we are to see improvement in student achievement on NAEP.
However, teacher due process and tenure laws in Massachusetts and New Jersey in the years leading up to the 2011 exams were as strong, if not stronger, than those in Connecticut today. Why, if our goal is to match the achievements in Massachusetts and New Jersey, is CCER suggesting that stripping away teacher due process rights and making it harder to get tenure is the solution? Indeed, let us look at test scores among states—Louisiana, Delaware, and Rhode Island—where education policy reflects most closely what Governor Malloy is proposing.
Connecticut outperforms these “Malloy states” in low-income student performance in NAEP reading scores in 4th and 8th grade and one would be hard pressed to use these states as models for improving low-income student performance."
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