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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: All the Education Opinion That's Fit To Fail

Jersey Jazzman: All the Education Opinion That's Fit To Fail:

All the Education Opinion That's Fit To Fail

The NY Times attempts education opining. Yeesh:
To qualify for waivers, states will have to install new tests — and teacher evaluation systems that take those test results into account — by the 2014-15 school year. The 12 states that received federal grants in the Race to the Top program last year have a head start. They agreed to put in data-driven teacher evaluation systems as part of that competition. But even reform-minded states like Delaware, which was one of the first to win a grant, have been unable to get their systems up and running and have asked