MORE THAN A SCORE: NEOLIBERALISM, TESTING & TEACHER EVALUATIONS.

Neoliberal education reforms such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have linked performance to both school improvement and teacher evaluation with the aim of rationalizing and restructuring the role of educators. The intent is to replace traditional collaboration and collegiality with market-style competition based on both data-driven quantitative results and qualitative assessment of teacher performance. A case in point is the new teacher evaluation system imposed by New York State Education Law 3012c. In New York City, conflicts between the United Federation of Teachers and the Department of Education ultimately led to an evaluation system imposed via binding arbitration by State Education Commissioner John King. This article will examine the New York City model is in its first year to analyze the impact of teacher evaluation systems on public education in a large urban setting. In particular, this article will focus on New York City as an example of both the destructive impact of corporate education reform and the potential of a nascent movement of test resisters to pose a challenge to neoliberal education reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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