July 18, 2012 | Posted At: 09:01 AM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: Teachers, Teaching, Unions , The Business Of Education
Quotes: How "Stack Ranking" Ruined Microsoft
Yes, we need fair and rigorous evaluations, with real consequences.. but we must be very careful not to create a Wall Street-type hyper-competitive culture that would destroy the teamwork that’s so critical to well-functioning schools. -- Hedge fund guy Whitney Tilson, riffing off Vanity Fair article on toxic environment at Microsoft


Microsoft always ran itself as a business. That’s simply how it’s worked, as impersonal and cold as that may seem. That’s why, statistics tell us, you’re most likely reading this via a Microsoft OS right now.
Posted by: Sarah | July 19, 2012 at 09:33 AM