Allan B. Taylor

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CT scraps using state test scores to compute teacher ratings

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State education board Chairman Allan B. Taylor and Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell both praised the action as an important clarification of the role state tests should play: a goal-setting tool for teachers, not part of a formula for rating an individual teacher’s effectiveness in the classroom. State teacher unions had fought using the state tests as part of teacher evaluations for years. Continue Reading →

Filed under: K-12, Schools/Child Welfare, Allan B. Taylor, Connecticut State Board of Education, Dianna Wentzell, Smarter Balanced Assessment, Teacher evaluation, teacher ratings

Malloy offers ‘Connecticut Core’ as Common Core fix

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With cover from the state’s two largest teachers’ unions, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Thursday kicked off “Connecticut Core,” the administration’s latest effort to quell the political and policy clamor over how Common Core curriculum standards should be implemented. Continue Reading →

Filed under: K-12, Politics, Schools/Child Welfare, 2014 campaign, AFT Connecticut, Allan B. Taylor, Common Core, Connecticut AFL-CIO