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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Schools Matter: Broad's Jim McIntyre Gets 2 Earfuls from Knoxville Educators

Schools Matter: Broad's Jim McIntyre Gets 2 Earfuls from Knoxville Educators:

Broad's Jim McIntyre Gets 2 Earfuls from Knoxville Educators

After serving as the Business Roundtable's star witness in Nashville recently for the Milken Plan for teacher evaluation (the essential plan that has spawned the New York prinicpal revolt), the smarmy and saccharine Jim McIntyre offered a commentary a few days ago in the Knoxville News-Sentinel to underscore how bureaucratic insanity may be viewed as rational practice. From the responses he got from Knoxville educators, I'd say they're not buying it. Here is a link to McIntyre's piece, and below are some of the responses.
rwhunter writes:
The reason the teachers all tell you it is an excellent system is because they all fear you! Every teacher I have spoken to has stated the numerous issues with this evaluation. While I am for regular evaluations for all teachers