pre-dom-i-nant (adj.) having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
Gotham Schools quotes the Obama administration in charge of the $4+ billion education innovation fund saying that unless New York’s legislature allows teachers to be evaluated based on test data, the state won’t be getting a slice of cake.
“Joanne Weiss said the Obama administration aims to reward states that use student achievement as a ‘predominant’ part of teacher evaluations with the extra stimulus funds — and pass over those that don’t. New York state law currently bans using student data as a factor in tenure decisions. Test scores aren’t everything, Weiss said. “But it seems illogical and indefensible to assume that those aren’t part of the solution at all,” she said, echoing nearly word-for-word Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s remarks last week to the National Education Association.”
So tests scores aren’t everything. Just the most powerful, authoritative and influential thing. Sounds like Dan Willingham’s memo failed to find its way to the White House.
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