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  Arne Duncan gets an 'F'
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Last EditedCraverguy  Mar 16, 2012 10:59am
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AuthorDiane Ravitch
News DateFriday, March 9, 2012 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionSecretary of Education Arne Duncan loves evaluation. He insists that everyone should willingly submit to public grading of the work they do. The Race to the Top program he created for the Obama Administration requires states to evaluate all teachers based in large part on the test scores of their students. When the Los Angeles Times released public rankings that the newspaper devised for thousands of teachers, Duncan applauded and asked, “What’s there to hide?” Given Duncan’s enthusiasm for grading educators, it seems high time to evaluate his own performance as Secretary of Education.

Here are his grades:
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