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Re:Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one rese... by newt0311 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @06:56PM (#392055)
Currently the biggest opponents of performance testing of teachers is the teachers union. Good luck getting rid of them.
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Re:Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one rese... by dpapathanasiou on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @07:23PM (#392088)
True, it's not likely to happen, given that the union is both politically powerful and responsible for the way things are now.

It would be a worthwhile thing to try, though.

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Re:Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one rese... by newt0311 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @07:46PM (#392130)
A lot of people already have. The fact that school voucher systems and charter schools exist in some areas is testament to their heroic effort. However, it is too little and maybe too late.
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Re:Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one rese... by dpapathanasiou on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @09:02AM (#392894)
He's suggesting something subtly different: allow people to become teachers more easily (i.e., within the existing public school system).

I don't think that's ever been tried.

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Re:Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one rese... by pchristensen on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:07AM (#393053)
too little and maybe too late

Definitely too late for kids already in school, but I would wager that humans will be educating their kids in schools for hundreds more years (maybe more). This would be like Edison giving up on the light bulb because it was too late for the kids who had to go to bed at sundown.

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