Sunday, August 28, 2011

This tidbit from Brill only hurts when I laugh | EdNewsColorado

This tidbit from Brill only hurts when I laugh | EdNewsColorado:

This tidbit from Brill only hurts when I laugh

Paul Teske is Dean and University of Colorado Distinguished Professor at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. These views represent the personal opinions of the author and may not reflect the position of the University of Colorado Denver or the University of Colorado system.

When Colorado failed in both rounds of the federal Race to the Top competition, there was much discussion and gnashing of teeth about why we didn’t win. Ultimately, the raters scored us lower than several other states, and we didn’t make the cut.

As painful as that was, and damaging for funding the implementation of our Colorado reform efforts, the much-discussed new book by Steven Brill, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools, apparently