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[|Here] is another response to //Waiting for Superman//, this one by Diane Ravitch and published in the //New York Review of Books//. If you'd told me five years ago that I'd agree with Diane Ravitch on pretty much everything, I'd have called you a liar, but I have to give her credit for changing her mind when the strategies she was championing turned out not to work.

[|Here] is a non-flattering (pretty damning, actually) review of //Waiting for Superman//. I received this in ASCD's SmartBrief.



Geoffrey Canada has come up in class pretty often, and I think he's to be congratulated for trying to end the cycle of poverty by giving poor children access to the kind of social services that middle-class parents routinely provide. But this article from the New York Times discusses his charter schools' record on test scores.

Of course, there's the argument to be made that test scores don't tell the whole story about what Canada is doing. And this article (also from the New York Times) highlights a lot of problems that have arisen with the system of testing in New York City, which has been lauded as very effective but seems to have rested on questionable data.



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