http://jasonstanford.org/2013/09/go-home-congressman-youre-drunk/
So, there's this Colorado congressman who has turned out to be quite the internet troll, having started a flame war on Twitter over Diane Ravitch's new book. He's called her evil, her ideas damaging, etc. Oh, well, guess you can't please them all, right? So, Jason Stanford has a few things to say. Have a look. My favorite is the part from Polis where he says
You cite the performance of these schools on standardized tests, but I don’t believe that standardized tests give the full picture. Your attitude that the test scores mean somehow that the school isn’t doing a good job is part of the problem.
Well, now he understands how the rest of us non-charter school teachers feel, hearing for years that the test scores 'prove' we are just a bunch of lazy slackers feeding at the public trough. My annual evaluation will depend heavily on test results this year, even though I'm teaching some of the most needy kids in my school, and many of them can't read well enough to succeed on the standardized tests.
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