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The main decision maker, Jason Kamras, is a Princeton grad.  The chancellor is a Georgetown grad and the former Chancellor, who with Henderson and Kamras devised the IMPACT evaluation system, has Cornell and Harvard degrees.

Not exactly "barely literate."[/quote]

Are you really that dense?  The issue isn't whether the people who devised these tools are illiterate.  It's whether those who are tasked with using them in practice are stupid and incompetent.

The teacher put her superiors on notice that there was a problem and they not only ignored her warnings, but fired her.  You might almost ask if her firing was akin to a retaliatory discharge.  The sheer idiocy does indeed validate the decision that so many have made to leave DC for superior public school systems elsewhere.  It may change for the better eventually, but the pace of improvement is very, very slow.

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Do you really need to be that insulting to make a point?

The people putting the tools into practice are underlings to the Ivy league geniuses who invented them.  The "superiors" who fired the teacher  were not her direct supervisors, they those very geniuses who invented the system. The data made them do it.  There was nothing the principal could do.

This whole episode is the direct result of the reform that Michelle Rhee brought to DCPS in 2007.  She was supposed to improve the system, but the reform brought to us by the supposed best and the brightest has made it worse.[/quote]

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