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Thursday, January 6, 2011

This Week In Education: Thompson: When Reform Loses Touch With Reality

This Week In Education: Thompson: When Reform Loses Touch With Reality

Thompson: When Reform Loses Touch With Reality

DemonsRiShawn Biddle at Dropout Nation says that "we don’t live in a world in which scale applies much to education anymore." Great teachers should produce at least 150% above a student's expected growth, and all students should be reading above grade level by 3rd grade. So, we should expand NCLB accountability, standardized testing, and value-added models for evaluation, and then we will not need to worry about low-quality instruction or abysmal curricula. Biddle wants to get rid of collecive bargaining and due process rights, and he supports vouchers, but he implies that neither are the driving