{"id":1285,"date":"2008-04-09T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T18:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2008-04-09T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T18:40:31","slug":"there-it-aint-a-rap-on-the-quick-and-the-eds-knuckles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"There it ain&#8217;t &#8212; a rap on The Quick and the Ed&#8217;s knuckles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickanded.com\/2008\/04\/there-it-is.html\">The Quick and the Ed<\/a> today, Kevin Carey boldly overclaims:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Times is reporting that, at the behest of the teachers unions, last-minute language was snuck into the New York State budget providing that &#8220;teacher[s] shall not be granted or denied tenure based on student performance data.&#8221; There&#8217;s really not much one can add to that; it&#8217;s hard to imagine a more unambiguous declaration of the union&#8217;s total disregard for student learning when its members&#8217; jobs are at stake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose there really isn&#8217;t much to add except that the Times article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/09\/nyregion\/09albany.html?_r=2&amp;amp;ref=education&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;oref=slogin\">clearly states<\/a> that the provision in question is not a ban but a two-year moratorium. It&#8217;s hard to imagine a more unambiguous declaration of the union&#8217;s caution about buying into rash schemes, and it puzzles me why Carey would make such an obvious omission in a way that undercuts his argument. See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/eduwonkette\/2008\/04\/after_nys_teacher_tenure_law_b_1.html\">Eduwonkette<\/a> for more links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Quick and the Ed today, Kevin Carey boldly overclaims: The Times is reporting that, at the behest of the teachers unions, last-minute language was snuck into the New York State budget providing that &#8220;teacher[s] shall not be granted or denied tenure based on student performance data.&#8221; There&#8217;s really not much one can add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-kJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}