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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Missouri Education Watchdog: No Child Left Behind? How About "No Constituent Left Behind"?

Missouri Education Watchdog: No Child Left Behind? How About "No Constituent Left Behind"?:

No Child Left Behind? How About "No Constituent Left Behind"?

This a clever take on the politicians' rantings and ravings on assessing teachers based on student scores. You would think poor scores would automatically mean poor teachers. That's what all the politicians tell us, right? They don't advance the conversation to consider individual cases, such as a teacher having a group of learning challenged students, or students whose first language is not English, or students who enter the classroom seriously under performing.

But why be bothered with those pesky issues that make students different than other students, let's go on the premise we can measure the effectiveness of teachers based on student assessments;