| This is an important message from a local school board member--Damon Buffum-- to the New York Board of Regents. To commend him for his straight talk and thoughtfulness, Diane Ravitch adds him to our honor roll as a champion of American education. - MUST read Mr Buffums' letter: The main purpose of his note "is to strongly support the views that Regent Rosa expresses: She states,'They are using false information to create a crisis, to take the state test and turn it on its head to make sure the suburbs experience what the urban centers experience: failure'."It's disturbing to me to listen to Governor Cuomo, Commissioner King and the Board of Regents decry, universally, that New York schools are failing our children...t I've also done personal analysis and know that there is a DIRECT link of education performance (whatever academic metric you chose) and student poverty. ... |
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