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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers --- are you evaluated or judged by your boss based on the number of kids who pass exams?  Seems like that would be a disincentive to teach at schools were kids start out being behind the curve.  [/quote]

We have to show growth on our SLO, not proficiency.  If we are ever judged by proficiency, I am gone from my Title One school.  It's a constant catch up game.  Students come in below grade level and while they make good progress during the school year, they lose it every summer and then we start all over again.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  [/quote]

How do they loose it? 
I don't understand this. Maybe title 1 schools shouldn't have summer break.[/quote]

It's [b]lose[/b], not loose.  How do students lose the progress they made during the school year?  They go home and play Xbox for 10-12 weeks.  While your kids are going to the library and doing summer reading or just reading for fun, my students might read the back of a cereal box.  While you send your kids to camp and go on vacations and trips to museums, etc, my students might go to Chuck E. Cheese or down the street to the park.  Your kids might do summer workbooks or study math facts or do online summer work, my kids don't do the assigned summer work even when incentives are offered.  They all have Internet access to our free online reading program but very few of them read online during the summer.  This is the summer slide and it's worse for lower income students.  This article is a few years old, but it is still very true today.  "The conclusion: while students made similar progress during the school year, regardless of economic status, the better-off kids held steady or continued to make progress during the summer--but disadvantaged students fell back. By the end of grammar school, low-income students had fallen nearly three grade levels behind, and summer was the biggest culprit. By ninth grade, summer learning loss could be blamed for roughly two-thirds of the achievement gap separating income groups."

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2005863,00.html[/quote]

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