Ravitch - "A Standardized Path to School Ruin"

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Diane Ravitch clearly lays out the problems with education "reform".

" Gov. Rick Scott seems determined to ruin public education in Florida. Not only is he devastating school budgets with multiple-billion-dollar cuts, but he is intent on crushing the morale of the state's teachers. One can't expect to improve the public schools while demeaning the professionals who work in them.

Scott approaches school reform as if public education were a government scam that needs to be privatized and as if teachers are lazy scoundrels who need a swift kick in the pants or the promise of a bonus to motivate them. He has a naive belief in the value of test scores that is not shared by the nation's testing experts."

Entire article at the link

http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/a-standardized-path-to-school-ruin/1174500