In March, Governor Cuomo, dismayed at the
large percentage of teachers getting high ratings, succeeded in
tying teacher evaluations and tenure decisions more closely to the tests.
Communication gets a lot of attention for a bunch of reasons (it's the loudest problem, it's the most immediate, it's the easiest to research, and it actually does account for a
large percentage of the satisfaction in marriage because we can't solve problems without it), but if we don't go deeper than the communication, our hands are really
tied in healing the relationship and moving forward.