Thompson: The Truth is the First Casualty
If you believe that revisionism, President Obama has an ESEA plan for you. It will even make all high school graduates college-ready by 2020!
As the war on inner city teachers intensifies, we should set the record straight on its second casualty. Central Falls High School was a different type of victim of Secretary Duncan’s definition of "multiple measures," which means that it can only take a single measure (a test score growth target) to destroy a teacher’s career. But educators may need to get past multiple subjective measures in order to remain in the classroom.
