Sunday, November 13, 2011

Schools Matter: NY Times Continues to Blame Schools and Teachers for Poverty and Penury

Schools Matter: NY Times Continues to Blame Schools and Teachers for Poverty and Penury:

NY Times Continues to Blame Schools and Teachers for Poverty and Penury

The Business Roundtable's Rube Goldberg plan for evaluating teachers in Tennessee (and other venues with RTTT money) has met with almost universal disdain, a response that has brought CEOs running out of their penthouses to dictate responses for the corporate media editorial pages.

The New York Times, which never saw a corporate education idea it didn't like, published its own tribute to the current effort by the Oligarchs of Ed on Saturday, with an editorial in support of Tennessee's ridiculous plan based on "value-added" test scores and an observation instrument that assures that thousands of good teachers will lose their tenure, if not their jobs. And thousands more will lose their love of teaching.

From the Times education experts on Saturday, which, with a date or two changed, could have been written any