{"id":2971,"date":"2010-12-29T23:24:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T03:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2010-12-29T23:24:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T03:24:57","slug":"megan-mcardles-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=2971","title":{"rendered":"Megan McArdle&#8217;s ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/12\/the-problem-of-measurement\/68583\/\">The Problem of Measurement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are legitimate questions about the type of structure and support necessary for better observation-based evaluation of teachers, but anyone who claims in a national venue that unions are against peer evaluations is simply ignorant (to take the charitable interpretation).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-2971","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-LV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","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=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}