Bad research

Meryl Tisch, chancellor of the New York state Board of Regents (something like the state educational superintendent) explains a plan that "asks" schools of education to track the performance of their graduates. Once the Board is "armed with this data, we - and they - will be able to see which programs are working and which aren't ..."

This is probably inevitable, as long as the beans of accountability have to be counted sometime. And it such a dumb idea - that the cause of a student's individual success or failure in school can be traced back to their teacher's certifying institution (why not correlate a student's learning to the happiness of their principal's lovelife) - I'm sure it will catch on. Unfortunately, plans like this one will ooze out across the country. It is much easier to affix blame three or more layers away than work hard to understand an ailing society creates ailing schools.