Slow Down the School Reform Factory

Mechanistically linking test scores to teacher evaluations means trouble not accountability
By Gordon MacInnes

Reformers look on education as something like an assembly line: the requisite machinery and bins of gleaming parts are all in place. If the products that come off the line don’t sell, it must be the welders who are to blame.

Under this mechanistic view, no one stops to consider blindingly obvious design flaws. What if the factory is tooled up to turn out gleaming, new … Edsels?

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