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Schools Matter: Responding to NPR's What's At Stake for US Teachers

Schools Matter: Responding to NPR's What's At Stake for US Teachers:


Responding to NPR's What's At Stake for US Teachers

Responding to NPR
What's At Stake For U.S. Teachers
by Alan Greenblatt

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/13/161072479/whats-at-stake-for-u-s-teachers?ft=1

NPR’s article contained numerous errors. Here are two of them.
1. “Practically everyone in education agrees that the old system of monitoring teacher quality … is useless.”
I know of no study that shows this. The evidence indicates that American teachers are doing an excellent job, which suggests that there is no crisis in teacher evaluation: Our middle-class students score at or near the top of the world on standardized tests. Our overall unspectacular scores are due to our very high rate of poverty,