tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671820069429263464.post1335608060256141099..comments2024-02-17T16:43:42.511-05:00Comments on "Teachers & Parents for Real Education Reform": Washington Post's blind allegiance to Michelle RheeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671820069429263464.post-7978169924619569172010-09-19T17:46:19.418-04:002010-09-19T17:46:19.418-04:00We'll never see improvement in education until...We'll never see improvement in education until we face over 50 years of research that tell us that family factors are extremely important to the academic success of the child. Instead of the vacuous "No Excuses" mantra we can look at how we can offer the impoverished child some of the same things that his privileged counterpart has, such as health care, preschools and experienced, Linda/RetiredTeacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01613269510654597179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671820069429263464.post-62347373455190637032010-09-06T16:51:23.969-04:002010-09-06T16:51:23.969-04:00Let's not forget that principals as well as te...Let's not forget that principals as well as teachers were fired based upon low test scores. Curiously, those new uncertified principals and uncertified teachers whose schools did not make the mark, did not suffer the mass firings that those they replaced suffered. It is then difficult to insist that the firing of the original principals and teachers was not, at best, arbitrary and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com