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Scott Maxwell looks at Florida’s “school reform” efforts, most recent marked by the resignation of the Florida Commissioner of Education for cheating.
A nugget:
Honest brokers would admit the current, test-obsessed system isn’t working.
But the reformers actually claimed the higher failure rates were fine and dandy — simply the result of higher standards.
It’s a fascinating little world these reformers have created for themselves — one where they claim success when scores rise or fall.
That’s why I neither celebrate nor lament Bennett’s resignation Thursday. He wasn’t our main problem. He was merely a figurehead for it — a high-profile cog in a machine hellbent on undermining public schools.
He’s right, you know.
The schools have not been “reformed.” They’ve been deformed.
