"With every superintendent's job pegged to the numbers of kids passing standardized tests, a program like this does nothing to increase a bottom line," said Daniel Jaye, assistant principal of math at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan and the force behind the City College program.
Mansoureh Tehrani is principal of METSA (Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Academy) in Carrollton, Texas.
Daniel Jaye, assistant principal for math at Stuyvesant High School and a member of the Math A panel, defended the scoring system, saying teachers should be pleased if more students passed.
One assistant principal for math at a city high school, who declined to be named for fear of retribution from superiors in the city Education Department, called the scoring system embarrassing.
You can contact the department chair for each teacher (that is, the assistant principal for math, or English, or science).
Mean old men are very real to ten-year-old boys, manifesting daily in the form of school principals, balding math teachers, corner grocery store owners and neighbors on the other side of the proverbial 8-foot fence.
The program is intended to teach middle school assistant principals how to improve the performance of math teachers in their schools.
Instead, the program will support the supervisors of math teachers, often assistant principals, and count on a kind of "ripple effect," Dr. Gregory H. Williams, the president of City College, said in a prepared statement.
A life-time educator, Diane taught high school chemistry, was Assistant Principal for Science at Richmond Hill High School from 1995 through 2002, Acting Principal of Manhattan Hunter Science High School and then Director of Math and Science Queens High Schools Office of the New York City Board of Education from August 2002 until her retirement.
The board has taken some steps ordered by the commissioner, including the appointment of math and English department chairmen in the high school and the hiring of a middle school principal.
