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YvonneCa

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5. Or one could include teachers in discussing...
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 03:39 PM
Feb 2012

...'what works'. The problem with data is that...currently...it is flawed. At least there is a change to measure growth. That's an important change. But until the methods of collecting, analyzing and reporting data are improved, I cannot support even a FRACTION of a teacher's job performance being judged by such a flawed measure.

Teaching, as a profession, encompasses SO MUCH MORE than current 'data' can possibly show.

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