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Teachers Want Accountability From the Top - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

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Teachers Want Accountability From the Top

Over the past decade teachers have grown accustomed to being on the receiving end of "accountability." Our unions have been castigated by corporate leaders and philanthropists for "protecting bad teachers." Bill Gates has pumped billions of dollars into an effort to create airtight accountability systems that use test scores to measure student performance, and data systems to allow the value of each teachers' work to be measured.
But meanwhile, accountability for the corporations themselves has gone out the window.
John Oliver shared this on The Daily Show, one of the few sources of truth in our media, in a segment called Money Boo-Boo:
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Shep Smith of Fox News reports:
Some bombshell emails reportedly show how two big credit rating agencies accepted cash in exchange for greenlighting the risky practices that got us into this long mess. One S & P official reportedly emailed "Let's hope we're all wealthy and retired by the time this house of card[s]