Comments on: Rise & Shine: Extra-budget boosts for three high-tech schools http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/02/rise-shine-extra-budget-boosts-for-three-high-tech-schools/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: reality-based educator http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/02/rise-shine-extra-budget-boosts-for-three-high-tech-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-248617 reality-based educator Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:53:01 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=28408#comment-248617 Here's the Hypocrisy of the Day - Harold Ford Jr. co-wrote a piece at the Journal last week with Louis Gerstner and Eli Broad that says meaningful education reform must come from tracking student performance and teacher performance through data systems - i.e., standardized tests. Here's the link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574483473296731550.html# Ironically, Mr. Ford, who attended the University of Michigan Law School, couldn't pass the bar exam and failed to obtain his law license, though he did refer to himself as a lawyer during his 2006 Senate campaign against Bob Corker. Yikes - the man who writes about the importance of data tracking and standardized testing for teacher and student performance failed the standardized test measurement in his own career - takes gall to do that with a straight face. Clearly he doesn't know anything about law even after studying it at law school. Wonder where he got his education expertise from? Here’s the Hypocrisy of the Day – Harold Ford Jr. co-wrote a piece at the Journal last week with Louis Gerstner and Eli Broad that says meaningful education reform must come from tracking student performance and teacher performance through data systems – i.e., standardized tests. Here’s the link:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574483473296731550.html#

Ironically, Mr. Ford, who attended the University of Michigan Law School, couldn’t pass the bar exam and failed to obtain his law license, though he did refer to himself as a lawyer during his 2006 Senate campaign against Bob Corker.

Yikes – the man who writes about the importance of data tracking and standardized testing for teacher and student performance failed the standardized test measurement in his own career – takes gall to do that with a straight face.

Clearly he doesn’t know anything about law even after studying it at law school. Wonder where he got his education expertise from?

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