Be sure to watch this excerpt from Backpack Full of Cash, narrated by Matt Damon.
It is a powerful presentation about the corporate reform movement and the damage it has done in one of America’s greatest cities: Philadelphia, where public schools starve while charter schools are awash in cash.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
They talk about student testing, but what you saw in that clip was a student survey that looked like it came from Tripod, part of the Gates funded failed MET project. They actually believe the survey results they get from kindergarteners correlates better to teacher effectiveness then other grades and its laughable.
However, it isn’t so funny when they are used for promotions or demotions and a teacher loses their job as a result.
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