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  1. Evaluating teachers by their students' test scores is a dumb idea. What role does student motivation play? None? Poverty? None? 7:17 PM Dec 15th from web
  2. The Race to Nowhere is the Obama express train to privatizing hundreds or thousands of public schools. 7:16 PM Dec 15th from web
  3. Read my blog at "Bridging Differences" (EdWeek). It is titled "Obama's Race to Nowhere." 7:15 PM Dec 15th from web
  4. Finished the index yesterday. It is beautiful. Whoever knew that an index could be beautiful? 6:19 PM Dec 14th from web
  5. Detroit story is logical end of stupid claims that teachers alone are responsible for stuent scores: not students or families. 6:18 PM Dec 14th from web
  6. Story of the day: Detroit parents want teachers jailed if student scores don't go up. Who will teach? 6:17 PM Dec 14th from web
  7. Most kids live in poor families. How will they be able to travel to school if they don't get free or half-price bus-subway pass? 6:16 PM Dec 14th from web
  8. Odd thing happening in NY. MTA about to kill student bus-subway passes, but choice program requires long trips to school 6:16 PM Dec 14th from web
  9. Will Tisch and Steiner toss out the phony tests? Duncan says we are lying to our children. He is right. 12:18 PM Dec 8th from web
  10. NY state's phony tests showed soaring scores in recent years. 71% of 8th graders in NYC alleged proficient, but only 26% on NAEP. 12:17 PM Dec 8th from web
  11. NAEP displays the fraud of NY state scores. State says 85% of kids in grade 4 are proficient, but only 35% on NAEP. 12:16 PM Dec 8th from web
  12. NAEP scores released today for cities. Very interesting. No reduction in achievement gap in NYC since mayoral control. 12:14 PM Dec 8th from web
  13. Check "Bridging Differences" at Edweek today for my riff on Obama and Duncan's launch of NCLB 2.0. 12:13 PM Dec 8th from web
  14. Real accountability would mean helping struggling schools, not closing them. But we have no education leaders, just charlatans. 8:42 AM Dec 6th from web
  15. Any time a school superintendent or a mayor closes down a "failing school," it is the leadership that has failed, not the school. 8:42 AM Dec 6th from web
  16. Any claims of education miracles are fraudulent. Education is hard work, steady work. No miracles. 8:41 AM Dec 6th from web
  17. The current era of school reform is our great national fraud. 8:40 AM Dec 6th from web
  18. The current era of chool reform is our great national fraud. 8:40 AM Dec 6th from web
  19. Yesterday NY Post reported 74% of NYC high school graduates in 2-year colleges require remediation. So much for "ending social promotion." 8:40 AM Dec 6th from web
  20. Race to the Top: NCLB 2.0 8:38 AM Dec 6th from web