A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About No Child Left Behind

Re:A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About N... by zarify on Monday July 14, 2014 @09:44AM (#8030835)

I know we love to harp on about teacher quality, but there are plenty of other factors that are just as important like access to the right learning programs, classroom mix and so on.

As a teacher I'll be the first to admit that for some students about the best we can hope for is to keep the peace until the mature or find something compelling that gives them a reason to succeed.

It's not as simple as "all teachers make $difference%".

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Re:A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About N... by danielweber on Monday July 14, 2014 @10:10AM (#8030965)

I admit that I said that comment from a place of annoyance: during pay analysis, teacher quality matter a lot, and during results analysis, teacher quality doesn't matter.

But as you point out it's not uniform. It's reasonable that teachers make a big difference in some scenarios and not in others.

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