Retired Atty and Teacher Clobbers Obama and the Know-nothing Media on Education.
*Good*. "Rank and gross" is just about right.
I couldn't have said it better.
>>>Congratulations, media! You have put the last nail in the education coffin. By forcing New York City to release the results of its “value-added” evaluations of teachers, you have now guaranteed that corruption and inferiority will reign in New York City schools.>>
And... here's the Obama contribution:
>>>Without this type of ranking included in the teacher evaluation process, New York State faced losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Race to the Top and other funds. Money has trumped wisdom for at least 10 years in the school system.>>>
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>>If our nation, its psychotic educational community and our bloodthirsty fourth estate do not extricate themselves from blind allegiance to easy slogans and rigid political prisms for analysis you won’t have eccentric, unquantifiable teachers such as myself any longer. You will have shysters, good at gaming the system, making corrupt alliances with corrupt administrators. And you can bet that their percentiles of “effectiveness” will be fantabulous and meaningless. >>>
Dianne B. Stillman is retired attorney, Bronx high school English teacher, writer on educational topics and “incipient blogster.”
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