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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teachers-react-20100816,0,6701929.story?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell Union leader calls on L.A. teachers to boycott Times A.J. Duffy objects to the paper's analysis of the effectiveness of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers. By Jason Song and Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times August 15, 2010 The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a "massive boycott" of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers. "You're leading people in a dangerous direction, making it seem like you can judge the quality of a teacher by … a test," said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has more than 40,000 members. Duffy said he would urge other labor groups to ask their members to cancel their subscriptions. Based on test score data covering seven years, The Times analyzed the effects of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers on their students' learning. Among other things, it found huge disparities among teachers, some of whom work just down the hall from one another. After a single year with teachers who ranked in the top 10% in effectiveness, students scored an average of 17 percentile points higher in English and 25 points higher in math than students whose teachers ranked in the bottom 10%. Students often backslid significantly in the classrooms of ineffective teachers, and thousands of students in the study had two or more ineffective teachers in a row. The district has had the ability to analyze the differences among teachers for years but opted not to do so, in large part because of anticipated union resistance, The Times found. The newspaper plans to publish an online database with ratings for the more than 6,000 elementary school instructors later this month. There is more to the article, so check the link if you want to read more. It seems our teacher's unions don't like it when the public actually gets to see the lack of effectiveness of teachers. |
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Good to see the failures of government education are getting mainstream attention outside of John Stossel, et. al.'s work.
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Yeah, this is one of the reasons teachers fight tooth and nail every effort to test THEM on an ongoing basis. Truth is, there are WAY too many of 'em who are flat-out UN-qualified to be teaching ANYthing, much less to be in charge of shaping the minds of the nation's youth. One more nail in the coffin of unionism. I have a cousin who's a teacher, and she's a good one - but she deludes herself by telling me that 'her' NEA chapter at 'her' school is an 'association' and it's not like those 'unions' with all the 'bad' teachers ... cousin or no, she's wrong, and she launches into long justifications of why 'her' little school's 'association' CAN'T be compared to a 'union' ... Hmm. Let's see ... it has the letters 'N', 'E', and 'A' in its name, it's called the 'National Educational Association', and, last I checked, THAT's a 'union' - specifically, a 'union' that supports 'The UN' thru HER 'contributions' ... but she don't wanna hear that. Oh - she's also opposed to teacher re-testing periodically ... surprise, surprise ...
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Like a Liberal.
They don't wanna' work but, they still wanna' get paid. |
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