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Carol Burris on Governor Cuomo's Baloney; by Diane Ravitch & Caol Burris

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Carol Burris has been an outspoken critic of Governor Andrew Cuomo's baseless attacks on New York state's educators. He is outraged that the current evaluation system rated 99% of the state's teachers effective or highly effective. What he forgets, Burris reminds us, is that this is not an antiquated system: the current method of evaluation was created by".Governor Andrew Cuomo! "Cuomo remains obsessed with teacher measurement and firing. Unhappy with the outcome of evaluations, he called them "baloney." He forgets that when the Boars Head delivery arrived in Albany, he was driving the truck. The evaluation system he now mocks is the very one he insisted be put in place. REAS THE TRUTH ABOUT TESTING MANIA...

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