FERGUSON, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew Saturday in the city of Ferguson after fresh violence erupted overnight amid public anger over the shooting death of an unarmed young black man by a white police officer.
A recent op-ed article in the Washington Post warned against overusing students’ standardized test scores in evaluating how well teachers are doing their jobs. There would be no surprise about that — if it had been penned by the leader of a teachers union. But it was written by Bill …