Class Struggle: dc schools

D.C. elementary school teacher Stephanie Black loved the story of the KIPP schools, leaders of the no-excuses movement in education, but could not stand one result of that movement, the new IMPACT teacher evaluation system in D.C. Her story is worth reading.

My colleague Bill Turque has uncovered this information from the D.C. schools beat: The teacher at Howard Road Academy Public Charter School suspected something was seriously amiss in April when a student taking the math portion of the DC-CAS standardized...