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To: Katelew who wrote (221276)	2/26/2007 6:30:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Classrooms aren't homogeneous. My regular english class would have a different mix of students than yours. I might beome incentivised to expel or transfer out my 'dumb troublemakers'. For that matter, I myself could have 3 regular english classes that could vary considerably on a composite comparison. Kate, this is a red herring. Measurement is not cookie-cutter simple in any field, yet business routinely finds a way to determine the high-performers from the low-performers, except when halted by the force of a union. Can it be done? Can it adjust for factors such as adverse conditions, like of capital, etc? Sure it can. Will it always be perfectly fair? Of course not. But will it raise overall performance and prevent terrible performers from ensconscing themselves for life? Sure it will. The teacher's union could help design a fair grading system, if it weren't so committed to preventing any grading system.