Thompson: What (Some) Principals Really Think
The City Limits' Helen Zelon interviewed three New York City principals and in doing so took us back to the pre-NCLB era where administrators were allowed to express reality-based opinions.
One commited admitted that her job wasn't necessarily to save every single kid in the school. "If you reach even 10 students, you change the history of ten families." Another observed that the "genius" of the Progress Report is that "it allows DOE to pretend they're supervising schools while maintaining
Documents: How The AFT "Diffused" The CT Parent Trigger
Embedded for your convenience, here's the PDF that blogger RiShawn Biddle found and passed along, which the AFT has apparently taken down from its own site (but not disavowed, far as I know).