He got it right the first time

An alert reader pointed out the Pioneer Institute's rejoinder to Secretary Reville's recent column in the Telegram and Gazette:

...a look at his “reform manifesto,” titled “Every Child a Winner!” reveals a very different picture. When it comes to high-stakes testing such as MCAS, he wrote, “A broad array of performance indicators should be developed, not simply results of standardized tests.”

On charter schools, he warned that a reliance on “market forces” would result in “little real improvement,” that it would “exacerbate inequalities of educational opportunity” and result in “further ghetto-izing minority and special needs students.”

Of course, the Secretary was right on both counts when he wrote that back in the early nineties. If only that philosophy were the one leading education in Massachusetts today.