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-----Original Message-----merit
From: Forum for Physics Educators [mailto:PHYS-
L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Bernard Cleyet
Our beloved governor now proposes to test the teachers. i.e.
based pay.periodic
What ignorance! I assume through out CA teachers endure a
grueling evaluation as does Gate Keeper and her colleagues inthe
Alisalexample of
Union School District.
If anyone is tested, it should be the parents.
* Actually they've been tested by the populace. That's an
why democracy, as practiced in the US, is flawed.son of
bc, who thinks Ike looks so good now.
p.s. Reagan used the Free Speech Movement to win office; the
afunding for CA
Nazi is using the teachers unions. (There's a metaphor here.)
p.p.s. In a previous post I said our beloved was cutting
schools, already near the bottom of the heap; here's somedetail:
exams?
http://www.csba.org/co/alerts/news_release1_6_05.htm
Spagna Jr., George wrote:
Herb asks
-----Original Message-----
From: Herbert H Gottlieb [mailto:herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:17 AM
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Subject: Re: California standards test in physics
[snip]
Are tests really necessary???
Can schools run efficiently without all those quizzes,
weekly tests, midterm tests, final tests, other tests, and
several
I recall one of our fellow list participants signature from
test toyears ago:
"I teach for free. They pay me to grade."
We're trapped in a political/social movement that says we must
who sobe accountable. To my recollection, nobody has tested those
_______________________________________________insist to make them accountable.
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"Cosmological inquiry takes place in the
space between mathematics, theory,
experiment, simulation, observation, and
philosophic speculation. It is where
science lives."
- Daniel Herwitz
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Randolph-Macon College
P.O. Box 5005
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