So, the suit by New York City's United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP to block 22 school closures and 15 charter school "co-locations" in Gotham came to naught. And? Mayor Michael Bloomberg, according to Gotham Schools, celebrated by mouthing off on a local radio show:
I talked for a bit last night with a DCPS teacher about IMPACT. While he expressed some concern about the system, he also said he was proof of it's effectiveness. See, he's a third-year elementary teacher at a struggling school in Northeast.
A few days ago, 206 ?ineffective? or twice-rated ?minimally effective? teachers were dismissed from their positions at the District of Columbia Public Schools thanks to the District's new teacher-evaluation system, IMPACT.
?The theory of evolution is based on almost as much evidence as the theory of gravity.?* ?Lorenzo Sadun, Math Professor at the University of Texas
Twenty years ago I taught English in a small town located in southwest Poland called Gora. At the time the country was just beginning its political, economic, and social transition away from communism. I was in Warsaw the night Lech Walesa gave his acceptance speech in 1990 as Poland's first freely elected president since before World War II.
As colleges drop the SAT requirement, death becomes the only real threat to job security, and
