What’s Good 4 the Goose…
Should what’s good for the goose be good for the gander?
Reader: it is one of the tragic ironicalisms of our time that the same education officials who are so eager to impose strict accountability measures on the teachers in their states are denied the experience of being held accountable themselves. In state after state, a persistent culture of low expectations means that officials continue to earn hefty paychecks even if they aren’t good at their jobs. Which raises a fiercely urgent question: is it long past time to hold our education officials to the same standards of excellence to which they have never before been held?
Today’s trip on the education reform express is a return ticket—back to the great state of Tennessee. Last time we visited the Volunteer State, Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, or TNeduCommish, had unveiled a plan to compensate the state’s teachers asactual volunteers. The plan was immediately found to have great merit, especially by those who don’t live in Tennessee and are not teachers. But TNeduCommish knew that his work