What Teachers Don’t Want You to Learn: New at Reason

The Virginia Department of Education and the teachers unions didn’t want data on student growth released, but a judge ruled otherwise.

A. Barton Hinkle writes:

Teachers don’t like that one bit, because data about student progress can be used to measure teacher performance. And if there is one thing the public education system does not like, it’s competition—either with private schools (through school choice), or with alternative public schools (through charter schools) or among teachers themselves (through merit pay). The education establishment is dedicated to the proposition that all mentors are created equal, and any suggestion that some might be better than others is anathema.

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