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streams excuses for the status quo

teachers near the top of the quality distribution

Hanushek's data refutes the claim that schools are powerless to overcome family circumstances

if a student has three years in a row of great teaching, that experience will overcome the average achievement deficit between low-income kids and their more well-off peers

Most of the policies that govern teachers and teaching treat all teachers as if they are the same. (For more on this, read The Widget Effect.)

backers of this rally don't want parents or the public to have the kinds of data that enable parents or school leaders to distinguish who these great teachers are

rally's only really specific principle calls for an end to the use of student assessment for any decisions of consequence

effective testing and data enable school leaders to identify what's not working so they can make sure that students and teachers get the support and resources they need to succeed

Children in this country have a right to a quality education -- but the public schools don't have a right to every child!

We use information to expose achievement gaps and other systematic inequities that work against that promise so that action can be taken to fix those problems before they destroy kids lives.