A homework assignment for New Jersey Governor Christie

Wally Jeffs

GOVERNOR Christie has formed the Education Effectiveness Task force, a panel to consider using student performance and other factors in assessing teacher performance ("Christie forms panel on teaching," Page A-3, Oct. 29).

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Christie is currently popular because he offers simple-minded quick fixes. The operative word here is simple. His belief in magical charter schools is simple. Just like "Waiting for Superman," the recently released documentary movie that has become a promo for charter schools, he thinks schools are factories that can be measured for profit and loss. And he's fixated on the dollars in teachers' paychecks.

And like all good neo-cons from the Church of the Divine George W. Bush -- lest we forget Christie's pedigree -- he offers government by theory, which always selects only those facts that fit the theory.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 1, 2010 1:08 AM
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