More ed reform

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/why-kids-should-grade-teachers/309088/3/

Two articles on ed reform:

1. Kids can't write because they haven't been taught the basics of how writing flows, i.e. the tools for constructing a sentence, a paragraph, and an essay - words like "if, but, although": New Dorp
2. Student evaluation of teachers is most correlated with improvements on standardized testing. Student surveys only cost $5 compared to other measures. Also, most teachers can't be evaluated on  standardized testing subject because they don't teach the subject.