Sometimes the education deformers are so stupid you think they are deliberately parodying themselves. Case in point, Forrest Hinton's modest proposal at the Quick and the Ed. After spelling out why none of Duncan's 4 school improvement (sic) turnaround options will work well for rural schools (of course, there's no reason to think they'd have much success with urban schools, either, but Hinton slides past that), he offers a 5th option: replace staff with machines.
Yeah, that'll work.
My question is: why limit this wonderful new option to rural schools? Why not be really bold and start replacing ALL teachers who don't show a test score bump with machines now?
What a wondeful idea! I think I'll go start a consultancy called BellBanger or BongWeather Associates, line up my Gates Foundation funding and start pushing it now.
Mark my words. In a week's time, Dunc is going to announce it as a 5th school improvement option. You heard it here first.
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