Ouch!
Check out all the nicely packed narratives in the embedded info-graphic over at Progress Illinois. You'd have to spend a lot of time unpacking the grade-level narrative, the international comparison narrative, the impossibility of firing a teacher because of unions narrative. It's shock-doctrine, and they've not even bothered to re-word it. And this is the progressive media.
Calm down, people. Consider your sources
Calm down, people. Consider your sources
8:31 PM (9 hours ago)
Studies Repeatedly Show...
Just reflecting on one of the basic positions of corporate ed reform... This is Robin Steans, once again, testifying during the Jonah Edelman's recent tax-deductible mugging of Illinois education policy:
The position is that teacher quality is twenty times more important than poverty in student achievement. Studies
The position is that teacher quality is twenty times more important than poverty in student achievement. Studies
