EduShyster has done it again.
This time she nails the Boston Globe.
This is the Boston Globe’s dream as expressed by its lead education writer:
“There’s a lot at stake in the takeover of the Gavin by UP Academy. If it succeeds at raising student achievement with an identical student population, then the main complaint of charter school critics will lose its resonance. If relatively inexperienced teachers can do what veterans can’t — namely turn around a school where only one out of four students performs at grade level — then the public cry for longer school days, merit pay, and stricter teacher evaluations will grow louder.”
How great would that be? If the test scores go up at Gavin, now taken over by UP Academy, every inner-city school could have teachers with high expectations but no professional training. All that is needed is a four-year degree, preferably from an Ivy League college or university. Every teacher could be judged by the rise or fall of student test scores. All unions would be abolished. No tenure, no seniority, just test scores. That solves all problems, right?
EduShyster explains the secret of UP’s success.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
It has become rather blatantly obvious by this time that the corporate media as a whole have a severe conflict of interest when it comes to reporting the truth about corporate education raiders. This is because they clearly regard education as just another segment of the infotainment industry and are licking their chops to get their teeth deeper into it.
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I have been emailing the Globe and its reporters regularly every time there is something like this in the Globe — for example, when they tout the success of certain charters, checking the facts on the DESE website and pointing out, for example, the lack of English Language Learners, or the lack of special needs students in the charters. It seems to fall on deaf ears, and I never receive a response.
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Concerning your last sentence. Realize that teachers are just peons and most don’t have the kind of money to talk loud enough to those ears.
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Here’s a crazy idea. Shouldn’t Harvard, Yale, Standford, Princeton, and all universities who are “feeding” TFA to do a community service by training public school teachers instead of producing corporate wannabes who will teach at public schools for Teach For America for several years (OK, some stay more than 2 years) to boost their resumé?
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