Can the billionaire philanthropist and the president of the AFT find common ground?
"You know, a quarter of our teachers are very good. If you could make all the teachers as good as the top quarter, the U.S. would soar to the top of that comparison." -- Bill Gates
Someone should probably point out to Mr. Gates that his statistical approach to teacher evaluation doesn't allow for all teachers to be as good as the top quartile. If they were, there would still be a top and a bottom 25%.
Gates reveals more of his misunderstanding of the teaching profession and school reform in general in a