Teachers unions and reform critics complained loudly about the accuracy of value - added data, and almost as quickly as the system was brought online, it was buried in lawsuits. (educationnext.org)
Others (especially reform critics) have made the same arguments countless times before. (educationnext.org)
None of this will be a surprise to those who follow American education policy debates, and perhaps the greatest achievement of the book is that given the chaos of those debates, Ravitch has collected these arguments in a single volume and explained the perspective of reform critics in a clear and accessible fashion. (shermandorn.com)