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The schools chancellor, Joel Klein, and the president of the teachers’ union, Randi Weingarten, are locked in a bitter debate over whether test scores should be used to evaluate teachers. Mr. Klein thinks they should and Ms. Weingarten thinks they shouldn’t. The legislature and the governor have sided with Ms. Weingarten, and it looks like New York is going to be the only state in the union that will forbid using test scores to evaluate teachers. As it happens, we’re not terribly excited about this fight one way or another, because we don’t think test scores should be the device for evaluating teachers. We have another contraption we favor for evaluating teachers. It’s called parents.
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|The schools chancellor, Joel Klein, and the president of the teachers’ union, Randi Weingarten, are locked in a bitter debate over whether test scores should be used to evaluate teachers. Mr. Klein thinks they should and Ms. Weingarten thinks they shouldn’t. The legislature and the governor have sided with Ms. Weingarten, and it looks like New York is going to be the only state in the union that will forbid using test scores to evaluate teachers. As it happens, we’re not terribly excited about this fight one way or another, because we don’t think test scores should be the device for evaluating teachers. We have another contraption we favor for evaluating teachers. It’s called parents.
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