Arnie Duncan Drops By…
by jonpelto
Today, U.S. Secretary Arnie Duncan and Governor Dan Malloy will be holding a press conference about “education reform” and the Connecticut legislation that increases the number of standardized tests, seeks to improve test scores and begins the process of tying test scores to teacher evaluations so that administrators can determine which teachers to keep and which to let go.
Word on the street is that Duncan will be announcing that Connecticut has or will get the Now Child Left Behind “waiver” that actually requires even more standardized tests.
Malloy, of course, is the guy who said he doesn’t mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores go up.
When President Obama appointed Duncan his Secretary of Education, he claimed that the guy had turned Chicago’s School System around and raised standardized test scores
