Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants schools to give parents, teachers more data: Education Secretary Arne Duncan, stoking a national debate over a Los Angeles Times series that examines how much individual teachers have raised test scores, urged public schools Wednesday to give educators more data on student achievement and parents a full report on teacher effectiveness.
"In other fields, we talk about success constantly, with statistics and other measures to prove it," Duncan said in the advance text of a speech he planned to give Wednesday evening in the Arkansas capital. "Why, in education, are we scared to talk about what success looks like? What is there to hide?"
