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[quote=Anonymous]Tying teacher performance to test scores doesn't work for a multitude of well-documented reasons. For one thing, the system is too lazy to use the scores of students who move from one school to another, which is a huge percentage of students in a district like Chicago. Students at the bottom tend to have horrible attendance, so it's hard to argue that their performance on tests is a reflection on their teachers at all. There are better measures of performance, like MCPS's PAR program, but that requires human beings to evaluate teachers, rather than computers. It is both more effective and more costly. Second - $76,000? Have you tried living on $76,000 in Chicago? Would you like to? From the posts that I see on this site about HHI, I seriously doubt many DCUMers would choose a career that tops out in the high 5 digits. It's hard to credibly argue that teachers should make less if you are making 2-3x as much.[/quote]
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