By SARAH GARLAND

The New York Sun
February 13, 2007 Tuesday
The British Have Arrived: They’re Reviewing City Schools
BYLINE: SARAH GARLAND
SECTION: NEW YORK; Pg. 3

British school evaluations

The adults were nervous, the children were rambunctious, and the two middle-age British women who arrived to help them were armed with clipboards, a jolly sense of humor, and firm advice that few would dare question.
The scene could have been from “Nanny 911.” In fact, it was a public middle school in Greenwich Village, and the visitors were reviewers from the British company Cambridge Education, which has a contract with the Department of Education valued at about $6.4 million a year to evaluate how city schools evaluate themselves.