Reply #34: Never taken a statistics course of any kind, have you?

[mbperrin]

Do, and when you return, you can strike the "should make zero difference" flip remark and actually discuss the topic.

Again, what's wrong with multiple standards? Why must the future plumbers of the world take as much foreign language as the future language teachers of the world? Why must the future English teachers of the world take as much math as the future math teachers? They do in Texas, the home of one-size-fits-all education.

Why do we have a 30%+ dropout rate? Students and parents find the curriculum irrelevant, therefore boring and a waste of time, to their future plans.

Since you took on the burden of foreign evaluation systems, find where each of those countries ranks, and then look at how they evaluate teachers. Return and report. You put it out there - it's your burden.

Until then, have a nice day.