This Week In Education Thompson: Is It Naive to Put So Much Faith in Brad Jupp?

This Week In Education

Thompson: Is It Naive to Put So Much Faith in Brad Jupp?

by john thompson

"There are no permanent friends, just permanent interests." So it is against my better judgment that I place my respect for Brad Jupp above my skepticism over Colorado's reforms. I want my union to take risks to benefit students but I would never support the vague words of the Denver Plan, choreographed by Jupp, that ties test scores with evaluations, if they were written by Joel Klein. Their reform plan also includes concrete passages that were clearly written by knowledgeable educators. The Plan expands