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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (17880)	5/1/2000 12:13:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769668

<<Ideally, you could come up with some way to measure teacher performance.>> The teachers unions will fight those efforts. Colorado just finished performing the C-SAP tests to measure the success of each school in Colorado against academic achievement standards. The teachers are at the capital today protesting that the low scoring schools are "stigmatized" by the results. It is possible to test a teacher's performance in a work sample situation (simulation). But in real life there are too many variables that are not under the control of the teacher. The demographics of students in one classroom may be very different than the one next to it. The calculus teacher might be a lazy bum who's students succeed in spite of him. The remedial reading teacher might be working very hard but have students who are falling through all the cracks. In the real world, unless you measure the teacher's performance over several years and control for demographics and immigration/emmigration you really don't know what you are measuring. No one has come up with an efficient system to do that, yet.