“There is the ever-present tendency here in the State Capitol to adopt the corporate notion that if you want to do anything you have to measure it,” he said. As he has done throughout his governorship, he returned to what he thinks is the key to a good education: the relationship between the teacher and student. “I think the emphasis on the teacher and the living role that they encounter in the classroom is most important, as opposed to this obsession with more and more metrics, collected over more and more years, to attempt to shape policy but which in many cases do not.”

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by Louis Freedberg, Ed Source.

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