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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is way too focused on teacher pay and not enough on results. Student test scores in the US lag far behind most other developed countries. Some teachers are superstars but others are terrible. [b]So pay should be tied much more to student outcomes.[/b][/quote]
it's already hard enough to get teachers in rural and Urban areas, what do you think having the outcomes of a teacher in inner city Baltimore or some tiny rural district in west Virginia compared to a teacher in McLean or Bethesda is going to do? And do you believe that the US's education issues are the fault of...teachers? wow. [/quote]

So there's no metric that cam be used to evaluate teacher performance? [/quote]

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Maybe you use student outcomes, but how do you adjust the evaluation to account for student apathy vs engagement? Would it be adjusted somehow for background knowledge that the student already has, family involvement and those who get outside tutoring? What about hunger or lack of sleep? Would attendance somehow factor in? [/quote]

It can be done. Other countries measure student outcomes to great success and use the data to weed out bad teachers.[/quote]

Those other countries have serious policy-makers who care about children.

We don't.[/quote]

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