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teach1st

(5,937 posts)

2. Kinda like

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2014, 06:24 PM

Aug 2014

Sounding like some of his fiercest critics, Mr. Duncan wrote in a blog post, “I believe testing issues are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools,” and said that teachers needed time to adapt to new standards and tests that emphasize more than simply filling in bubbled answers to multiple-choice questions.

Kinda like a Wall Street CEO complaining about the detrimental effects of income inequality.

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Education Secretary Allows Reprieve on Test-Based Teacher Ratings. [View all] elleng Aug 2014 OP

This is good news. It's a start. n/t YvonneCa Aug 2014 #1

Kinda like teach1st Aug 2014 #2

Finally, some pushback. Demeter Aug 2014 #3