Teacher Performance Rankings: The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
April 05, 2012
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Imagine if your state chose to rank surgeons practicing at public teaching hospitals, and then published these rankings in the local paper. Doctors whose patients die or fail to recover quickly would receive poor rankings, while doctors whose patients fully and quickly recover would r
Continue Reading →When Political Correctness Goes Too Far
April 04, 2012
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