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anonymuse  ·  4107 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is Algebra Necessary?

Some of the clauses in No Child Left Behind just seem to be poorly thought out and hidden from the public. A friend of mine who teaches at the local high school informed me that teachers are evaluated, partially, on the improvement that a student makes throughout the year. Teachers who lead AP or IB classes with higher-scoring students are, under this clause, going to get a lower evaluation simply because these students do not have much room for improvement that can be reflected score-wise. Which means there's now an incentive for teachers to create impossible tests at the beginning of the year and then give an easy final to get a good evaluation, regardless of how well they actually teach.