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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Obama Blows It On Education

Jersey Jazzman: Obama Blows It On Education:

Obama Blows It On Education

I'm having a hard time listening to the rest of the State of the Union. Because President Obama - a good and intelligent man - cited the Chetty, Friedman & Rockoff study as a justification for the odious Race To The Top, and to call for what will amount to an expanded testing regime which drives merit pay.

Here are some of the many objections and cautions about using this study to do EXACTLY what Obama wants to do:

None of us are objecting to looking at the study carefully. None of us think this was a hack piece of work: it is