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Originally Posted by AGDee
I'm not a teacher, but I'll hazard a guess that the teachers feel threatened that they are being assessed on the children's performances on one test when, no matter how good a teacher they may be, there are many other factors that determine how successful a child is on said test, including all the other teachers that have ever taught that child! Should an 8th grade math teacher be judged on how their students do on this test when, in reality, the child has been behind in their math skills since 1st grade?
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But it's typically not one kid; it's all your kids. And most evaluators are very aware of what particular teachers do and who they teach. Sure, you may superficially look bad to have all the failures, but if you teach all the learning disabled kids, anyone with any sense knows that your kids aren't like the other kids by definition.
And, unless I've missed something major, NCLB doesn't really require that anyone do anything to teachers based on the results of the test. If that's going on, it's an example of a local or state policy that the district is blaming on NCLB.
NCLB is basically being scapegoated for everything going on educationally that people don't like. Not all of it, and I'd even say a majority of what we hear about, isn't in NCLB itself and may only be loosely connected to it.
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