Obama's Mixed Message on Education
I'm voting for Obama, but it's stuff like this - which I'm told airs this Thursday in Virginia and Ohio - that makes it hard for me to do so without holding my nose:
(0:16) You can't do this just by shoving 30, 35 people in a class, and just teaching to some test.
Seriously?! The Obama administration - which include the Racin' To The Top maniac Arne Duncan - is going to fault Mitt Romney for pushing education policies that "just teach to some test"?!
The Arne Duncan who pushes what Diane Ravitch calls the "junk science" of test-based teacher evaluation? The Arne Duncan who is using RTTT as a bribe to force states into a regime of test-based teacher evaluation, even
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(0:16) You can't do this just by shoving 30, 35 people in a class, and just teaching to some test.
Seriously?! The Obama administration - which include the Racin' To The Top maniac Arne Duncan - is going to fault Mitt Romney for pushing education policies that "just teach to some test"?!
The Arne Duncan who pushes what Diane Ravitch calls the "junk science" of test-based teacher evaluation? The Arne Duncan who is using RTTT as a bribe to force states into a regime of test-based teacher evaluation, even
