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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Obama Campaign Wants to Know « Diane Ravitch's blog

The Obama Campaign Wants to Know « Diane Ravitch's blog:


The Obama Campaign Wants to Know

A reader told me that she received an email from the Obama campaign asking her how the administration’s education policies have affected her.
I received the same email, as have, I assume, thousands or millions of others.
So, yes, please tell the campaign how Race to the Top has affected you.
Let them know how their policies have pushed state legislatures to pass teacher-evaluation systems that are unproven, inaccurate, unstable, and punitive.
Let them know how teachers will be evaluated based on the test scores of students who are chronically absent.
Let them know how teachers will be evaluated based on the test scores of students they never taught.
Let them know that the rankings produced by these systems are