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An Emerging, and Very Pointed, Democratic Resistance
An Emerging, and Very Pointed, Democratic Resistance
"I would like your views," Senator Al Franken said to Betsy DeVos, the Education Secretary-designate, at her confirmation hearing, on Tuesday, "on the relative advantage of doing assessments and using them to measure proficiency or to measure growth." The question was about whether states should measure how many kids meet an absolute standard, or how an individual child's performance improves or declines.
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The Democrats have always been better at being an opposition party than they have at being a ruling party. So this is no surprise, really. Not that I'm complaining.
Apparently a large segment of the American populace has negative feelings about science and expertise. Because they're elitist, apparently, whereas a bunch of millionaires gutting federal regulatory bodies to help their corporate pals isn't.
And fuck asthmatic kids. Little brats. My air not good enough for you, huh?
Guarantee that when public education is gutted and "school choice" becomes the norm, performance metrics are how the spoils will be divvied up. Since this is the sole reason Devon was nominated, and her sole contact with the educational system, you would think she would know how to answer this question.