PBS Newshour 8/31/2010
From what I see, this IS the way to run a public school.
(from transcript)
MICHELLE RHEE: I didn't -- I didn't sort of proffer any guesses at the front end to say, well, it's going to be this percentage or that percentage.
But when we took control of this school district in 2007, 8 percent of the eighth-graders were operating on grade level in mathematics, 8 percent. And if you would have looked at the performance evaluations of the adults in the system at the same time, you would have seen that 95 percent of them were being rated as doing a good job.
How can you possibly have a system where the vast majority of adults are running around thinking, "I'm doing an excellent job," when what we're producing for kids is 8 percent success?
A very good question.
ALSO SEE
"Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battles" by SAM DILLON, New York Times 8/31/2010
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