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Sunday, September 14, 2014

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New York State Teacher Evaluations Are Rigged,

Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy has a piece at LohHud on the absurdity of the New York State APPR teacher evaluation system, showing how the classroom observation component can be rigged by district leaders.For instance, Scarsdale has decided that no teacher will be rated "highly effective" in the classroom observation component.Pleasantville, on the other hand, gave out "highly effectiv


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Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekCollege For All Once Again Exposed As MythThe NY Times shows what's happened to the "American Dream" since 1989 - even for the college-educated:YOUNG families are better educated than ever before, but they are earning lower real incomes. The Federal Reserve Board’s newly released 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances indicates that the median f