SENIORITY RULES, BUT DO STUDENTS LOSE?
smf: the LA Times is about to drop another shoe in its school reform jihad in Sunday's print edition. This is the first round in that next mixed-metaphorical attack: this time on teacher seniority / longevity / experience / educational attainment.
Once upon a time there were two newspapers in this town:
- one had a database of student test scores sorted by who their teacher was that was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and used it to evaluate teacher performance.
- the other had a database of teachers and their salaries, also obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
- What if we were to compare the two, crunch the numbers and determine return-on-salary-investment by teachers? Would
