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Using Students’ Standardized Test Scores To Evaluate Teachers Is Wrong

• by Judy Molland
• March 4, 2012
• 7:50 pm

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“I am a special education teacher. My students have learning disabilities ranging from autism and attention-deficit disorder to cerebral palsy and emotional disturbances.” So begins William Johnson’s op-ed piece in today’s New York Times.

Feeling overwhelmed already? Can you imagine coping with a class like that, compounded by the fact that these are teenagers, so raging hormones and social pressure also play a part.

And yet, as Diane Ravitch points out in “Schools We Can Envy,” published in the New York Review of Books, in recent years, elected officials and policymakers have all agreed that there should be “no

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