Bruce Baker of Rutgers joins the honor roll, not as a champion of public education, but as a champion of honesty, accuracy and integrity.
Scholars must go where the evidence takes them, not where it is popular or politically expedient,
Today, Baker is outraged that the Néw York state education department continues to press for adoption of its flawed evaluation system.
He is outraged that the creators of the system–AIR–recognized its flaws, yet blessed it anyway.
He is outraged that the state and city of Néw York will force these flawed metrics on educators.
For his devotion to the best ideals of scholarship and his fearless championing of them, Bruce Baker joins the honor roll.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The evaluations have been rammed down our throats in NY! NYSED in Albany has been consistently out of touch and incompetant. Dick Ianuzzi, president NYSUT, accepted the evaluations after a short period of time negotiating. The New York State Teachers Union charges $1,000 a year in dues, to render our jobs more difficult? Governor Cuomo only has had his eye on Race to the Top $$$. (And his mother is the greatest advocate of teachers for 60 years?). And who do we have to defend us from Bully Andrew? Dick with “no balls”!
(Thanks for the discounted magazine prescriptions after ten years of paying dues.)
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