Why the Term "School Reform" Has Lost Its Luster
The term "School Reformer" was once honorable or hopeful. No more. Now, the associations with those two words are so profoundly negative that most people, other than ambitious politicians, can no longer use them without choking. To me "School Reform" now is fatally undermined by policies that lead to child and teacher abuse on the one hand, and profiteering and corruption on th
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With A Brooklyn Accent:With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All WeekNotes on the Testing Catastrophe in New York StatePolicies Which Create Massive Stress in New York Schools(Notes for a Talk to Southampton Democratic Club)A.P.P.R- requiring that all teachers in the state must be evaluated with 40 percent of their evaluation coming from student test scores.Requiring that teachers rated “low performing”