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[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]
Who said there isn't? Of course we can evaluate teacher performance - but doing so by test scores is beyond ridiculous. I used to teach, and we were evaluated yearly by observers external to the school system (3 observations), plus an observation and feedback from the principal was taken into consideration. [/quote]

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