Megan McArdle’s ignorance
If you propose a subjective system of evaluation by principals and peer evaluators, the spokesmen for the teachers union complain that subjective evaluations are open to abuse of power. Megan McArdle, The Problem of Measurement. There are legitimate questions about the type of structure and support necessary for better observation-based evaluation of teachers, but anyone […]
Teaching about religion
Andy Rotherham uses the overblown rhetoric about "Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays"* to point out that public K-12 schools generally do a lousy job of teaching about religion. He attributes this substantially to the skittishness many public schools have about the church-state boundary. Never mind the 1995 consensus statement that included (among others) ACLU and Baptist […]