More Horseshit

from Arne Duncan, who fails to note what is really wrong with our schools.

At least he mentions "principal" quality. The problem is the hiring systems in public school districts are not based on the civil service system, although the pay scales mimic it. Hiring is based more often on political and familial connections rather than on experience and qualifications.

Duncan, of course, is just another Business Roundtable type with no clue at all about schools.

There is NO "honest assessment" on teacher "quality" because hiring decisions are more often than not NOT based on qualifications.

When you have schools like the one where I was before I was unjustly sacked had a mother and her two daughters teaching in the same school building and the principal saw nothing wrong with this, then you know something is horribly wrong with our public school system. Think of the more experienced, more talented teachers who were passed over in favor of the two daughters, both in their twenties.