WEEKEND QUOTABLES
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"Firing teachers is not a school improvement strategy...Killing a neighborhood school is like putting a knife into the heart of a community." -- Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch
"Value-added Assessment, used as it is today, is junk science." -- AFT Convention speechRandi Weingarten
The fixation on testing, the attacks on teachers and their unions—they’re all proxies for attacks on public education. That’s what this comes down to: whether people believe that kids have the right to good public schools close to where they live (and despite what anyone says—parents are with us on that), or whether our public education system should be privatized, bled dry or abandoned altogether. -- Speech at the AFT ConventionJ.C. Brizard
Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard said Tuesday that an elected school board