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2010-07-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2010-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Only about 16 percent of the school district's 4,000 classroom teachers, who were evaluated on test-score growth, could fall into the "highly effective" category.

Only? That's about what you'd expect under the Pareto principle.

Only 3,759 to go.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-07-25 07:52|| 2010-07-25 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 It's an election year and Rhee's attempts to clean up the schools are a central issue in the campaigns. The unions are livid.

Posted by lotp 2010-07-25 07:57|| 2010-07-25 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Gotta be some real winners in that group...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-07-25 08:23|| 2010-07-25 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 No worries, unemployment insurance currently has no expiration date.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-25 11:55|| 2010-07-25 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Besides, yesterday's WaPo culled this from Iran Press - or maybe the other way around? No matter, it's not likely the Iranians will come looking for us for copyright violations.

Right?

It's considerabley shorter than the WaPo piece,too.

Posted by Bobby 2010-07-25 14:00|| 2010-07-25 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 We live in strange times, folks, when the Iran Press is more believable than the WaPo. It's like one has fallen into a wabbit hole.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-07-25 14:53|| 2010-07-25 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 The District of Columbia schools chancellor has dismissed 241 teachers who had formerly received poor appraisals under a new evaluation system.

And the union you rode in on, too.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-25 15:04|| 2010-07-25 15:04|| Front Page Top

#8 ...and 240 of 'em will be back in classrooms next year after the inevitable lawsuit.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-07-25 17:38|| 2010-07-25 17:38|| Front Page Top

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