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Our cutthroat curriculum
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Blog by Adam Bessie/Washington Post
“When you are basing the effectiveness of teachers on lots of softer things, whether the kids feel good, whether the classroom is happy, whether we’re creative (don’t get me wrong, those things are important), but if the kids can’t read…that’s not acceptable,” former Washington D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee asserted indignantly in a recent interview with Charlie Rose, defending the standardized test-based reform movement that she has touted to an applauding media. Rhee is fighting a battle against these “softer things,” as The American Thinker recently observed, an image she cultivated in her iconic stern pose on a now-famous cover of Time Magazine – humorless, severe, standing imposingly and holding a broom, ready to sweep away “bad teachers” like errant spitballs, and and with them, “softer things” like creativity, and perhaps, empathy. (more...)
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