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Conversations with Obama, Duncan on assessment
- 10-03-2011
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Guest blog by Carol Corbett Burris and Kevin G. Welner
We can’t say how many high school principals get calls from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, particularly when he knows he’ll be speaking with a critic of his policies. We do know that he got an earful when he called the principal of South Side High School in New York, Carol Burris (one of the authors of this article). Burris’ correspondence with Secretary Duncan began on July 5, 2011, when she published an open letter to him on The Washington Post’s “Answer Sheet” blog. She writes in that letter about the test-based evaluation of teachers and principals, a policy that’s received increasing national attention from policy makers. She describes the hard-working teachers at her high school and explains how New York state’s new educator evaluation system would harm the work they do: (more...)
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