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Friday, March 2, 2012

The double-edged sword. What goes up, must come down. « Fred Klonsky

The double-edged sword. What goes up, must come down. « Fred Klonsky:

The double-edged sword. What goes up, must come down.

Tim has a point.

He says, “I think that faculties should organize themselves in such a way that they are prepared to politely and publicly decline any awards offered to them based on standardized test scores.”

When we make too much of it when our scores go up, there are no excuses when they go down some years.

And they will. They always do.

But in our case, we couldn’t decline what we weren’t offered.

There is something just so wrong about recognizing only the principal for any measure of school performance.

Particularly our principal.

She never taught the 4th grade about the