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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And I DO want to  evaluate teachers  by scores. Just not raw scores. I want to know if  the kids they teach  are learning or not.
I do have issues with the  implementation  of course.  I don't see why teachers of non core topics have less scrutiny  than mathematics  or English  teachers [/quote]

Sounds like you haven't read any of the literature about the inability of these tests to accurately evaluate teachers by student standardized test scores -- or that the scores reflect SES more than anything else.

Check the NCLB break-outs and you'll see that kids in the sea class with the same teacher will have different scores mainly based on SES -- that's one positive thing that NCLB has done -- broken out scores by race and income making it perfectly obvious that it's not the teacher, it's the parents, who make the big difference.

Are some teachers better than others?  Of course -- and some teachers are better with certain types of kids and in certain subjects -- but high-stakes testing doesn't measure that [/quote]

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