A little known group called Educators for Shared Accountability designed a rubric for evaluating Secretaries of Education. It incorporates multiple measures.
By its metric, Richard Riley was our best national leader.
Check out Secretary Duncan’s value added rating.
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BRILLIANT!!! I hope this goes viral!! Thank you for making my day!!! If the realtors get their hands on this information they may suggest that Finland is a better location in which to reside. I have been tempted to begin my own Underground Railroad to SAVE THE CHILDREN!!
Marge
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Time to spin around Arne! You’re fired!
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President Obama is losing women from his cabinet. Wish he would have Dr. Linda Darling Hammond as Secretary of Education. He originally campaigned using her education philosophy. What Secretary Duncan is doing is hurting children with all the pressure that is applied to them with high stakes testing. Third graders having meltdowns on test days is child abuse.
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Darling-Hammond would have been a much better choice. As I understand, she had all but been named when DFER and Eli Broad had a “Lil’ chat” with Obama and he suddenly dropped her like a hot potato in favor of Duncan, who had worked for Broad for the previous eight years. Things that make ya go “Hmmm!”
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Reblogged this on Transparent Christina.
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*snort* As I often complain, Arne Duncan couldn’t get hired as a substitute teacher where I live and work. Neither, for that matter, could Michelle Rhee.
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Ha! What could they teach? How to lie, spin and obfuscate?
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Well, I dunno, those do seem to be important skills in our modern world.
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Perhaps in the drama department teaching acting-pretending to be something you are not.
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This requirement for the SoE and for any politician putting forth an educational agenda ie. NCLB, should be part of every teacher’s union contract.
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What is so sad about this, is that we subject 5 year old children that have no choice in the matter to constant rank ordering, comparing, testing and then tell them they “don’t meet standards” yet the powerful people behind the scenes: Duncan, Eli Broad, Waltons, Gates, The Fordham Institute, et al, are immune from being ranked, compared, scrutinized and told “no excuses”.
What is helpful, is setting realistic goals and documenting progress. I am sure Duncan would say there are unique circumstances to his situation that aren’t reflected in the assessment being used. How do you like them apples, Arne?
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