What Educators Don’t Want You to Learn

A few years back, the Los Angeles Times started publishing ratings on all the local public school teachers, outraging the local teachers' union. Now a Virginia resident is seeking to do the same thing. It went to court, where the judge ordered the information released, albeit with the students' names redacted. Even so, it is now possible to find out the teachers whose students are learning a lot - and the teachers whose students are learning very little. Naturally, the local department of education and the teachers' union are pursuing more legal measures.  more

Perhaps these educators are worried about their teachers' self esteem, I don't know. But it seems to me that kids' futures should trump teachers' self esteem or educrats' self-interest. Does anyone disagree?

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