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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Arne Duncan: Indifferent Maniac

Jersey Jazzman: Arne Duncan: Indifferent Maniac:


Arne Duncan: Indifferent Maniac

What a nutcase:
Publishing teachers' ratings in the newspaper in the way The New York Times and other outlets have done recently is not a good use of performance data, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in an interview yesterday.
"Do you need to publish every single teacher's rating in the paper? I don't think you do," he said. "There's not much of an upside there, and there's a tremendous downside for teachers. We're at a time where morale is at a record low. ... We need to be sort of strengthening teachers, and elevating and supporting them."
So how does this square with Duncan's famous endorsement, in 2010, of the Los