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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happens in hundreds of districts across America. Teachers and admins are judged by how many kids pass, so pass every one you possibly can.

They are not judged by how ready their students are.

-teacher [/quote]

This is what we should be talking about more. [b]We need better measures that students know the right stuff before leaving the city's schools.[/b] This is what we as parents should be pushing for - maybe this is an opportunity to get on a better track. [/quote]

dp:  Well, that's the Holy Grail of education.  Education is not just "knowing stuff" -- being a critical thinker and knowing how to learn are the most important outcomes of a good education, and those things are hard to test for.  In the old days, teacher performance was assessed subjectively by the principals.  That model has flaws.  Recently, ed reformers have been trying to use more objective testing to assess teachers.  That model has flaws.

It's a tough problem.  Clearly, setting unrealistic goals is not the answer.  But finding an answer that can be systematicallyimplemented, without flaws, is an enormous (impossible?) challenge.[/quote]

Really? My grandmother had only an 8th grade graduation (circa 1917) and my father was a high school drop out (circa 1937) yet they both were able to write and speak properly, unlike many of today’s H.S. graduates. [/quote]

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