>> lazar. that's what i figured. thank you on behalf of teachers some years ago way before senator collins, i was a teacher for three years. i worried about standard deviation and principal who insisted we be doing that. we had meaningful dialogue and i was free from that effort. i have no idea how i could have done what you are doing right now with teaching x-number about months the way you want to teach and seeing results and then one month being quote, a dumb teacher and it was gia who pointed out the mindless test preparation. thank you for your viewpoint. mr. chairman, thank you for holding this hearing on testing and accountability. i'm pleased we're looking this issue and i want to let everybody know on the witnesses and thank you all for coming, this is working draft. this isn't set in stone and so that's why we have you here. it isn't republican view or democrat view it is a bipartisan view and it is a working draft. i think that should be emphasized. i'll concerned about recent administration efforts to sid

lazar.a more simplified question than what senator collins asked. my kids as adults never tested well. it is probably genetic. [laughter] but they didn't test well. so my question is this, is it more important that we know what student know or is it more important that we know that students are learning? dr. west? >> so it is much more important if we're trying to think about the performance of the school system to focus on what students are learning, because that's what schools have more of an impact on. what students know at a given point in time will be heavily influenced by genetics as you mentioned perhaps but by the family environment that they grew up on, a whole host of factors outside of the school's control. when we're thinking about accountability, it should be for student learning. >> mr. leather? >> it's a conundrum. i think to try to separate whether we need to know what a student knows versus whether they're learning. i don't see how you could go one way or the other. i think

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city clerk: request of captain lazar and turnac for engaging -- for viaduct productions for value of $176. >> also there is another memo in your packet about allowing the engagement program to attend the ice skating event at union square. do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? any abstaining? >> thank you, motion carries. i want to thank mr. thompson of willie via tech productions which is valid at approximately $176 to allow the youth engagement program. again, $176. okay. next line item. city clerk: line item 2. general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight aide genetic but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks on the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or occ personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment neither police or occ personnel nor commissioners are required to pond to questions presented by the public, but may provide brief re

stephen lazar social studies and english teacher harvest collegiate high school in new york city. i've asked -- we have your testimony and we read them, at least i have. we ask you to summarize your testimony in five minutes because we have a lot of interested senders who would like to ask a question. so if you don't mind there's a clock that will show you in five minutes up and i would use the governor why don't we start with you, dr. west go right down the line. >> thank you. chairman alexander, senator murray, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i would like to begin by congratulating the committee of putting the reauthorization act of the top of its legislation agenda for the 114th congress. nothing is more important to our nation's future pension the we provide all children with the opportunity to reach their full academic potential. congress can't do that on its own but it can help by addressing the very real shortcomings of the mars recent reauthorization, no child left behind commerce trying to predictability with respect to

lazar talked about to be able to judge, you know, as ms. lee said, no one assessment is going to be able to judge everything. so i think it is absolutely, again, this isn't an either or. to be able to have common, statewide measures, sophisticated measures, of student progress in literacy or math is, i any, essential. so you can see bhou e how kids are doing from district to district. you can see where are the best schools in the state working with english language lerners. if measurement from school to school or district to district you can't capture best practices. you can't understand where the most progress is being made. i think those should be short. i'd like to keep it to no more than four hours a year. then then welcome other more performance based assessment. if the state gets to that level, what the state looks at as well. >> anybody else want to weigh? >> on your kind of performance, don't you agree that if you're going to hold schools accountable, you have to have something that you can objectively look at but can you design a c

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lazar? >> senator alexander senate xx murray and distinguished members of this committee.it is an honor to testify before you all today. i come as a proud national board certified public high school teacher. i teach in a high school in new york city. my students who are listening to me now and i need to remind to study for a history test tomorrow, represent the full diversity of our city. i'm also em bargsed to say i was a teacher who every may until last would get up to apologize to my students. i would tell them i've done my best job to be an comment teacher for you up until now. but, for the plast month of school, i'm going to turn into a bad teacher to properly prepare you for exams. we would then practice mindless rep tigsz of facts so that they could be successful on their state exams. i did this because standardized tests measure the wrong things. i did this because the states for my students force me to value three hours of testing over a year of learning. i did this because the standardized test was the only way for my students to demonstrate their learning to the

as the best picture nominees, they are -- "american sniper," clint eastwood, robert lorenz, andrew lazaresher and james w. skotchdopole, "boyhood," richard linklater and cathleen sutherland, producers, "the grand budapest hotel," wes anderson, scott rudin, steven rales and jeremy dawson, producers, "the imitation game," nora grossman, ido ostrowsky and teddy schwarzman, producers. "selma," christian colson, oprah winfrey, dede gardner and jeremy kleiner, producers, "the theory of everything," tim bevan, eric fellner, lisa bruce and anthony mccarten, producers, and "whiplash," jason blum, helen esta brook and david lancaster, producers. >> for the complete list of all the nominations, please visit oscar.com. [ cheers and applause ] >> and join us sunday night, february 22nd, to celebrate these incredibly -- incredible artists at the oscars with our host neil patrick harris. see you at the oscars. >>> we certainly will see you there. back now with jess cagle and chris connelly, so, jess, in this batch what jumped out at you? >> i'm disappointed that the director of "selma," ava duvernay di

clint eastwood robert lorenz andrew lazar, bradley cooper and peter morgan producers.er and kathleen sutherland producers. "the grand budapest hotel" wes anderson steven rales and jeremy dawson producers. "the imitation game" nora grossman edu ostraskowsky. "selma" kristina colson oprah winfreyde winfrey, d.d. gardner. "the theory of everything" tim bev vin, eric fellner, lisa bruce and anthony mccartin producers and "whiplash" jason blum helen esterbrook and david lancaster, producers. >> for a complete list of all the nominations please visit oscar.com. >>> the president of the academy and chris pine talking about the nominations. we have so much to go through. some great, great news here. we're going to discuss it in a moment with krista smith and discuss our oscar nominations. >> announcer: the nominees is brought to you by the all new volkswagen gulf family 2015 mow the tore trend car of the year. isn't it time for german engineering? why did a panel of 11 automotive experts... ... name the volkswagen golf motor trend's 2015 car of the year? we'll give you four go