Weekend Quotables
D.C. Rhee's disappearing $34 million surplus
Weingarten, leader of the 1 million-member national union, said "three-card monte may be an acceptable game in some places, but it shouldn't be an acceptable principle to guide DCPS."The Chancellor talks a lot about performance. What we're seeing here is a lack of performance."(WaPo)
Pay-for-grades study
“Providing incentives for achievement-test scores has no effect on any form of achievement we can measure.” (Harvard University economist Roland G. Fryer)
Harvard Ed School or Yogi Berra?
“When you are paid to do something you may not know exactly how to accomplish, it’s not clear
