Latest News and Comment from Education

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

NYC Educator: Don't Buy a Used Car from this Man

NYC Educator: Don't Buy a Used Car from this Man:

Don't Buy a Used Car from this Man

Governor One Percent, Andrew "I am the Government" Cuomo is taking yet another principled stand. You may recall his first principled stand, when he made sure the millionaires who bought and paid for him wouldn't have to continue paying that nasty millionaires tax. Now he's standing up for the millionaires once again, billionaires like Gates, Broad and the Wal-Mart family actually, in demanding that an untested, ineffectual, and very troublesome evaluation system be imposed on city teachers.

Never mind that a third of the states principals have signed a petition opposing the system. Never mind that value-added evaluation isunsupported by research. Never mind that principals who've dealt with it find it insane, unworkable, and largely incomprehensible. The important thing, in