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Queens Teacher: Kids are big losers in Mayor Bloomberg, Joel Klein's school test scores game
Kids are big losers in Mayor Bloomberg, Joel Klein's school test scores game
Kids are big losers in Mayor Bloomberg, Joel Klein's school test scores game
Juan Gonzalez - News
So all those glowing school test results were a fraud, after all.
For years, Mayor Bloomberg, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and top education officials in Albany touted big jumps in math and reading scores statewide - and skyrocketing results among New York City's pupils.
The scores, they said, were proof that mayoral control and Klein's data-driven version of school reform had succeeded.
Schools were winning the "civil rights battle of our time," the chancellor claimed, by closing the racial "achievement gap."
To promote his reforms nationwide, Klein even founded a nonprofit group last year with the Rev. Al Sharpton
Juan Gonzalez - News
So all those glowing school test results were a fraud, after all.
For years, Mayor Bloomberg, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and top education officials in Albany touted big jumps in math and reading scores statewide - and skyrocketing results among New York City's pupils.
The scores, they said, were proof that mayoral control and Klein's data-driven version of school reform had succeeded.
Schools were winning the "civil rights battle of our time," the chancellor claimed, by closing the racial "achievement gap."
To promote his reforms nationwide, Klein even founded a nonprofit group last year with the Rev. Al Sharpton