Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110121:20:37:00
That didn't work. we're going to try another experiment. so the things they're doing now in charter schools, in turnarounds which close schools and replace them with charters, in terms of merit pay for teachers, in terms of basing teacher evaluations and student evaluations on standardized tests, none of these things have been proven scientifically. a lot of studies are coming out now to show that they don't work. and yet this has really shaped the policy, in part because arne duncan comes right out of the foundation world. he was on the board of the brode foundation. he believes in all of thi...