The city’s proposal to save on school lunches will reduce the number of options. (Wall Street Journal)
Seniors at Stuyvesant High School have publicly listed the classmates they’d like “to tap.” (Post)
Budget cuts are closing public day care programs without alternatives for the children. (Daily News)
The Post says it’s wrong to say the city schools are doing better on the basis of test scores.
The Harbor School students’ dive with Fabian Cousteau began a long oyster-planting season. (NY1)
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case about No Child Left Behind’s unfunded mandates. (AP)
Speaking to Kalamazoo high school graduates, President Obama pushed a no-excuses agenda. (Times)
Ellen
The POST says it’s worng to say city schools….”
Then why the heck did the POST, and other editorial boards and the Chancellor, insist on tying teacher evaluations to test scores? This is the fuzziest math I have ever seen!
insiderknowledge
Ellen, Couldn’t agree with you more. If the tests are not reliable to say the schools are doing better when the kids pass then how can they be the gold standard of teacher effectiveness? However this is typical of the ed deformers who control the media outlets.. Use the numbers.to suit your agenda. “we need a way to scapegoat teachers so lets use the test scores” The numbers are reliable when they are applied to union busting and assaults on middle class workers.
Ellen
Well I do enjoy pointing out thier inconsistencies
Pogue
Hey, I’m reading in other places, including the Washington Post, that Michelle Rhee’s recent teacher-raise funds are partially supplied by Broad, Gates, Walton, etc., and, that if she loses her position because Mayor Fenty may be defeated, those big oligarchs are reserving the right to pull their funding out of the situation? Is this true? Is GS on it? And is this what the oligarchs mean by “It’s for the children?”
Michael M.
Re Item Two:
As long as they’re not listing Tweed administrators…
Michael M.
Re Item 4:
So now the Post editorial room is in favor of rigorous tests?
Where were they when Boomberg was using inflationary state tests to pat himself on the back as the Great Edumacator?
Akademos
The Post: 8 or 9 years late and as obtuse as that suggests. The bias is tertiary.
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