As for the evaluation process itself, it needs to be yearlong, with evaluators working alongside teachers and observing many different lessons.
"Evaluators relied so intensely on 'school' as a criterion of evaluation not because they believed that the content of elite curricula better prepared students for life in their firms…but because of the perceived rigour of the admissions process," Ms Rivera wrote.
While city officials do not yet have a projected cost, these outside evaluators are expected to be the largest expense of the new evaluation system.
Asian-Americans are the "new Jews", held to higher standards (they need to score at least 50 points higher than non-Asians even to be in the game) and frequently stigmatised for their "characters" (Harvard evaluators persistently rated Asian-Americans below whites on "personal qualities").
And evaluators should not try to second-guess auditors, because they rarely have the right skills.
Second, evaluators must not tackle audit or monitoring issues.Faced with these constraints, the consultants resigned.
Delegating the commissioning of evaluators is the best way to handle an increase in reviews, intended to provide closer scrutiny.
The commission says it follows guidelines set by the OECD, which is reviewing Mr Patten's reforms of the evaluation process.The trouble is, the EU has had so many rattling skeletons that any apparent curtailment of evaluators' freedom looks bad.
The commission spoke of a lack of imagination on the part of the evaluators.
The European system must also be able to deal with two kinds of missiles, intercontinental-range missiles fired at America and intermediate-range weapons fired at Europe, with different trajectories and speeds.General Trey Obering, director of the Missile Defence Agency (MDA), calls Pentagon evaluators "very pessimistic".
One look at his parents, each of unremarkable stature, might have made evaluators sceptical.
