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Re: [Phys-l] WHY VALUE ADDED TESTING IS A BUSTWAS:Re: [PTSOS] Teachers' Test scores to be made public



Time to repost:

http://www.counterpunch.org/macaray03202009.html

bc thinks it's the in the unions' interest to "weed out" the incompetent teachers.



On 2010, Sep 02, , at 08:56, John Clement wrote:

By the way the teacher's unions are not the major problem. Look at which
states have weak or nonexistent unions, and then look at which states have
the poorest performance. TX has lay down and play dead unions with only
tenure in a few districts. But TX is also near the bottom of the heap. As
top down control increases, the resistance at the bottom will also increase.
But if we used quality control based on a team approach the way it is done
in Japan, we might improve things.