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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

This Week In Education: Quotes: TFA Founder Under Fire For Value-Added Views

This Week In Education: Quotes: TFA Founder Under Fire For Value-Added Views:
Quotes: TFA Founder Under Fire For Value-Added Views

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Either her message has gotten lost or she seems to have lost some urgency over ensuring we’re making sure every year for every kid counts (because we know the consequences of the alternative for too many are dire). 
 - Unnamed TFA alumni responding to Wendy Kopp oped last week  plus Kopp response via Whitney Tilson (see below)
FROM TILSON
After reading [Kopp's oped piece last week], one of my readers (and a former TFA corps and staff member) wrote the following:
Maybe I missed it, but I haven’t seen you or anyone else in your email group comment on Wendy’s WSJ op-ed about the publishing of the NYC value-added data, which had me a little confused…either her message has