The Education Wars: Evaluating Teachers, Students, and Schools
David Berliner, who was written extensively on the issue of public education, looks at the sheer stupidity of NCLB and "evaluations" of test taking by students as keys to get teachers and schools to "shape up" or be fired or closed. It takes an idiot like Arne Duncan to not understand that kids are evaluated all the time, but formal testing really doesn't accomplish anything, especially given the reality kids don't take the tests seriously.
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Here are a few pictures I took at Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon today, including a couple of them from the historic lodge:
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