Virginia governor pushes deep budget cuts
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) has privately recommended cutting $730 million from K-12 education.
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (AP)
Why not link teacher pay to test scores?
My guest is Lisa Guisbond, a policy analyst for the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, a Boston-based organization that aims to to improve standardized testing practices and evaluations of students, teachers and schools.
By Lisa Guisbond
Have your kids ever gotten an A for work that you, or they, didn’t think was worthwhile? Something like that happened recently with Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
By Lisa Guisbond
Have your kids ever gotten an A for work that you, or they, didn’t think was worthwhile? Something like that happened recently with Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Education historian and New York University Professor Diane Ravitchgave him an A for effectiveness at getting buy-in for linking teacher evaluations to student test scores and a D- for pushing bad ideas. I would forgo the A and lower the grade to an F for pushing ideas that are destructive.
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