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(42 minutes); paraphrased:
30 years ago, Massachusetts adopted teacher content knowledge requirements (MTEL) and increased pay:
Massachusetts undertook sweeping education reforms in 1993 that linked funding increases to comprehensive reforms, ranging from curriculum and accountability changes to a new three-part teacher licensure test whose pass rate was initially just 41 percent.
Today, Massachussetts has the highest performing public schools in the country. Can we do that here?
Time flies. My 2019 question to Governor Evers (Former Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Superintendent).
2013: Alan Borsuk:
The Massachusetts test is about to become the Wisconsin test, a step that advocates see as important to increasing the quality of reading instruction statewide and, in the long term, raising the overall reading abilities of Wisconsin students. As for those who aren’t advocates (including some who are professors in schools of education), they are going along, sometimes with a more dubious attitude to what this will prove.
Legislation and Reading: The Wisconsin Experience 2004-.
Deeper dive: Wisconsin’s one attempt at implementing an elementary reading MTEL style content knowledge requirement: Foundations of Reading (FORT).
I also gave him a copy of Fast Lane Literacy – a big effort to accelerate learning to read.
Learn faster. Achieve escape velocity!