Well, really, more words for thought than food. (See how I got that explicit explanation of the idiom in there? It's because I teach fifth grade. We don't understand any idiom.)
I was reading the slew of articles about Joel Klein's departure as NY City Schools Chancellor, and one part of the many articles really stood out for me.
Before Klein got to the school system, this is how it was: (taken from here)
In the New York school system, nobody could be fired. Not only was there no accountability, Mr. Brill said, they had nothing to be accountable to. “There wasn’t any data in the entire system that could tell whether a student or a school was improving,” he said. “It didn’t exist.” Mr. Brill added: “I was talking to Bill Gates about this just last week. He said, ‘name a business where you have more than 100,000 employees and you have no idea who’s more effective than others.’ “
So interesting. Gates gets it. We cannot keep giving children a disservice by getting educated by an ineffective teacher.
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