Rhee's Revolution Reaping the Rewards of Arrogance Run Amok
A couple of clips from an insightful op-ed by Judith Warner in the NYTimes:
Around the country, supporters of education reform — or at least of the test-scores-driven, tenure-busting, results-rewarding sort of reform epitomized by organizations like Teach for Americaand championed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan — gave a collective gasp of dismay last month when voters in a number of districts handed primary defeats to candidates closely associated with just this type of reform. In New York, three state-senate candidates who ran on pro-charter-school platforms each failed to garner more than 30 percent of the vote. In Washington,
High School Senior, Sylvie Baldwin, Just Says No to Any More Testing
Story from Inside Higher Ed here.