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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Release to press of teacher data has become a rallying cry

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Release to press of teacher data has become a rallying cry:

Release to press of teacher data has become a rallying cry

Public debasing of teachers in N.Y.
N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo may have won the legal battle to base teacher evaluations on student test scores and publish them in the press. But they may have also unwittingly awakened a sleeping giant of a resistance movement. Shades of what happened in Wisconsin in response to Gov. Walker's union busting legislation.

The Times reports that this latest assault on teachers has lit a spark.
In the days leading up to the release of ratings for thousands of New York City public-school