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- 11-02-2011
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Opinion by Gary Ravani/Thoughts on Public Education
Gary Ravani taught middle school for more than 30 years in Petaluma and is currently vice president of the California Federation of Teachers
The Obama administration, acting while Congress was still dragging its feet on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, has offered states an opportunity to be granted waivers from some of the more oppressive aspects of the current No Child Left Behind law. The tradeoffs for receiving a waiver include adopting college- and career-ready standards, developing teacher and principal evaluation systems using a variety of measures (including but not limited to student test scores), and “rigorous” programs to turn around the lowest-performing schools. This last is a bit redundant, as states receiving School Improvement Grants have had to adopt the “turnaround” strategies demanded in Race to the Top (RTTT): (more...)
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