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A comment on The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools. Parent comment

Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools by specialist on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @12:12PM (#10465241)
Parental involvement is the number one factor for student achievement. Followed by socio-economic stuff, like food, household income, zip code.

Make a ranked list of factors and teacher competency isn't even in the top ten. Which makes all this school reform chatter drive me nuts.

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Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools by brockers on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:39PM (#10474535)
Neither is teacher salary. You are spot on in your factor rankings and it make me absolutely crazy every time people try to turn student failure into a teacher pay issue.
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