Moscovitch decries those Ed Reform initiatives that blame teachers instead of helping them. This is a piece well worth reading, and quite fitting given the drama playing out in Boston right now. Here’s an excerpt.

“What all these so-called reform initiatives have in common is the assumption that teachers in low-performing schools have the tools they need to turn their schools around but, for some reason, are refusing to use them. We therefore need to use the carrot (merit pay) or the stick (losing their students via choice or to charter schools, embarrassing them by publicizing their students’ low MCAS scores, or firing them).”