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Putting Weingarten's comments on test scores in context
- 01-13-2010
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Columm by Stephen Sawchuk /Education Week
The worst thing about being a blogger is having to feed the beast every day. But the best thing is knowing that there's always space to follow up on a story that deserves more time, attention, or nuance than there is room in the paper. Such is the case today with Randi Weingarten's Big Speech, which is quickly becoming something of an annual tradition for the American Federation of Teachers. • A lot of the coverage in the general press focused on Weingarten's remarks about incorporating test scores into teacher evaluations. Perhaps this is just representative of the difference between writing for a specialty publication and writing for a mainstream newspaper, but this is hardly news. Randi has been making the point for months. (more...)
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