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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Nobody is disputing that Arne Duncan said that teacher evaluations should be tied to student achievement, or that one of the ways of measuring student achievement will be performance on standardized tests. The question is HOW this will happen. Your claim is that the standard will be: "If your students pass the test, you pass. If your students fail the test, you fail." Please find me one actual, sincere proposal for a teacher evaluation system like that. 
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I never said that, but when 50% of your evaluation is based on achievement, [b]you could make that assumption.[/b] I haven't taught in years, but I see the pitfalls.  Teachers don't deserve this.[/quote]

You certainly could assume that. But you would be wrong.

What's more, it is possible to tie teacher evaluations to student achievement even without the Common Core. Indeed, DCPS has been doing exactly that since 2009:

http://www.dc.gov/DCPS/In+the+Classroom/Ensuring+Teacher+Success/IMPACT+%28Performance+Assessment%29/Value-Added#1

And there is nothing about the Common Core standards that requires teacher evaluations to be tied to student achievement.

If you object to tying teacher evaluations to student achievement, then that's what you should be objecting to.[/quote]

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