Comments Surrounding Grading System Unclear
Authors dispute claim by Barresi
BY KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
Thursday, February 14, 2013
2/14/2013 8:01:38 AM
State Superintendent Janet Barresi told some parents Tuesday that authors of a report that concluded that the state’s new A-F grading system is flawed have since privately renounced their analysis.
But the report’s authors say that isn’t true.
“I have no idea where that idea on the part of the superintendent came from,” said senior project coordinator Patrick Forsyth, professor of education and co-director of the Oklahoma Center for Education Policy at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa. “We are perplexed by that and don’t know what to make of it.”
When contacted Wednesday by the Tulsa World, state Education Department spokeswoman Sherry Fair said Barresi’s claim was a result of a misunderstanding between Barresi and Assistant Superintendent Maridyth McBee.