CAP, Ed Trust, and federal policy foolishness
Posted by Mike Petrilli on February 28, 2011 at 10:03 am
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Let me say from the beginning that I don’t think the Center for American Progress and Education Trust are staffed by fools. On the contrary, their leaders are savvy, courageous, talented people who have taken difficult stands against the education establishment. No, my headline refers to the old adage, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Because if we embrace the latest CAP/Ed Trust proposal on ESEA,we’re the fools.
In a paper released last week, the two organizations called for far-reaching federal mandates around teacher evaluation and distribution (in return for receipt