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Anti-Teacher Union Rhetoric Is Not Supported by Test Data
No education reform rock start can get through a few sentences without playing the ”union” card. Walt Gardner makes mince meat of the argument by pointing to those NAEP results they quote so much: ……if teachers unions are responsible for low student achievement, then students … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-union, education, education reform, Florida, high stakes testing, JUan Williams, Massachusetts, merit pay, Minnesota, mitt romney, NAEP, reform, status quo, teacher unions, test data, testing
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“Let them eat tests”
Texts from the many speeches that were given last weekend at the Save Our Schools March have begun to trickle in. Valerie Strauss posted the remarks of Stanford Education Professor Linda Darling-Hammonds last night. The Stanford professor helped candidate Barack … Continue reading
Florida Charter Schools Fall “far short of the sky-high promises by politicians and for-profit executives who claimed that they would do better”
Coming on the heals of this weekends Orlando Sentinel story regarding the poor overall performance of the state’s charter schools, arrives a thorough smackdown of the politicians whom plunged Florida into such a commitment in the first place. Writes Scott Maxwell: But … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, charter schools, charter schools in florida, education, Florida, Florida Chamber of Commerce, florida education reform bill, florida governor, Florida schools, florida teachers, market based reform, McCay Scholarships, Opportunity Scholarships, republicans, rick scott, School Choice, status quo, testing, Vouchers
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