Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Is the tide really turning?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Is the tide really turning?

Is the tide really turning?

by Mike Klonsky

Thanks to Lady Wonk Dana Goldstein for pulling together a summary of a glut of new reports raising doubt about current administration ed policies.

Goldstein writes:

Although much of the Obama administration's education reform agenda promotes test score-based teacher evaluation and pay, the tide seems to be significantly turning against such policies, at least among wonks and academics.

Included in Goldstein's collection is her own excellent piece, The Test Generation in the April, 2011 American Prospect.

Is the tide really turning? Maybe However, I'm not sure Arne Duncan's crowd pays much attention to the