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Scholars may be “smart” but they are not in the real world. Thet are either biased or not in the real world.
"The same day that the Los Angeles Times went public with an online database rating teachers effectiveness based on test scores, a Washington-based nonpartisan think tank released a paper strongly cautioning against such a use.
Recognizing the technical and practical limitations of what test scores can accurately reflect, we conclude that changes in test scores should be used only as a modest part of a broader set of evidence about teacher practice, wrote a panel of 10 scholars in a brief published by the Economic Policy Institute."
Have you ever heard of this organization? Here are the founders:
"Its founders include Jeff Faux, EPI's first president; economist Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University; Robert Kuttner, columnist for Business Week and Newsweek and editor of The American Prospect; Ray Marshall, former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin; Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at UC Berkeley; and economist Lester Thurow of the MIT Sloan School of Management."
They are all big government types--they believe government owns your children. This is just a way for these Lefties to get publicity--by calling themselves "scholars" instead of ideologues. Just another D.C. press release from a propaganda group--not to be taken seriously by decent people.
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"The same day that the Los Angeles Times went public with an online database rating teachers effectiveness based on test scores, a Washington-based nonpartisan think tank released a paper strongly cautioning against such a use.
Recognizing the technical and practical limitations of what test scores can accurately reflect, we conclude that changes in test scores should be used only as a modest part of a broader set of evidence about teacher practice, wrote a panel of 10 scholars in a brief published by the Economic Policy Institute."
Have you ever heard of this organization? Here are the founders:
"Its founders include Jeff Faux, EPI's first president; economist Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University; Robert Kuttner, columnist for Business Week and Newsweek and editor of The American Prospect; Ray Marshall, former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin; Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at UC Berkeley; and economist Lester Thurow of the MIT Sloan School of Management."
They are all big government types--they believe government owns your children. This is just a way for these Lefties to get publicity--by calling themselves "scholars" instead of ideologues. Just another D.C. press release from a propaganda group--not to be taken seriously by decent people.
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