Reformy baloney.

The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss hands over her column to Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina. He trashes the arguments of “Accountability,” “merit,” “choice,” and “competition,” when looking at school improvement.

From President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan to the misleading documentary “Waiting for Superman” to the new reformers (Bill Gates, Geoffrey Canada, and Michelle Rhee), the public is bombarded by a false claim that teacher quality is the most important element in student learning and public education is failing because of an inordinate number of “bad” teachers.

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