WhoopsyDaisy posted...
And I agree that it'd be difficult to develop a measure for the quality of a teacher, but once we have it then we can quit writing new standardized tests every year and focus on teaching.
Any system for checking teacher quality can be "played" though. When you tie teacher performance to kids performance on standardized tests, teachers have kids practice standardized tests all year (which is absolutely awful and soul-crushing as a form of education, and provably produces worse students. Students in areas with lots of standardized tests throughout their education actually perform worse on the SAT on average, even though the SAT is ANOTHER standardized test. Nevermind anything creative...).
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