The Daily Churn: Thursday
What’s churning:
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave a back-to-school speech Wednesday at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas – home of the Little Rock 9 – that talked in detail about the Los Angeles Times series and its expected publication of teacher names with seven years’ worth of test scores attached. Duncan argues for transparency though he doesn’t advocate other districts publish names and test scores in their city newspapers. “The fact is we publish a school’s scores next to the name of a principal and a district’s scores next to the name
