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To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (51402)	6/3/1999 12:08:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 67261

<<Maybe the thing to do is to withhold raises until all of the teachers in a given district or state or whatever had achieved the new standard. Sort of like making all of the kids stay in at recess because of the transgressions of a few. Peer pressure certainly does have some merits.>> yes. If you set a standard and require all to move toward it the educators would police themselves. There is disparity among districts and even individual schools. In addition you have some classes designed for students who because of a disability or whatever are not going to reach the highest standards we set. So the teacher in this classroom might be performing extremely well, yet the achievement scores are not going to reflect the highest standard. My recommendation is that you set percentile improvement goals. So if a schools average scores on the national achievement test last year was in the 40th percentile, you offer teacher bonuses based on a 5% increase on the National achievement tests school wide. I like the bonus concept more than the higher pay concept because the latter just represents putting the cart before the horse to me.