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Charter Schools and Merit Pay

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

In a new post, educational historian Diane Ravitch says, among other things:As I predicted on this blog, President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are now the spear carriers for the GOP's education policies of choice and accountability. An odd development, don?t you think? The Department of Education dangles nearly $5 billion before the states, but only if they agree to remove the caps on charter schools and any restrictions on using student test scores to evaluate teachers.What is extraordinary about these regulations is that they have no credible basis in research. They just happen to be the programs and approaches favored by the people in power.* * *There is also no research that justifies the Obama administration?s belief that tying teacher evaluations to student scores will improve schools...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).