[–] ScottRockview ago
If you care about your kids, get the fuck out of California. The big one is needed as those coastal cities really need a bath.
[–] PeacefulAssassin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
California has a HUGE asian, can't wait to see the tiger moms tear the school boards a new one. this will be interesting.
[–] UsedToBeCujoQuarrel 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If I read that right they 'improved' the scores by changing how they measured them.
[–] slwsnowman40 ago
They "improved" the graduation rates by counting those that got GEDs etc.
Won't work for long. This measures each grade year against the students in the previous grade year (ie: this years third graders scores are measured against last years third graders scores). That does measure cumulative teaching ability (ie: if education is getting better in each grade each year then the trend overall in a particular grade should be upward) but at some point you will get a shitty year of students and they will have to answer for that without looking at those actual students. A mix of the two might be a decent idea (showing both a trend in cumulative education and individual education) but they will never go for something that actually might be helpful when they can just change numbers every few years to make themselves look better.
[–] aileron_ron 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's well known LAUSD has the dumbest kids, but highest paid teachers in the country.
[–] HillBoulder 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The only answer is more diversity.
[–] 1Sorry_SOB [S] 1 point 6 points 7 points (+7|-1) ago
Teacher unions FTW! I'm guessing whites in the 90th percentile will now score less than Mexicans in the 20th percentile because they don't improve percentagewise as much.
We're in communist clown world.
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[–] slwsnowman40 ago
Yes. I think we'd get better teachers, as we'd get people that wanted to teach and not those looking for an easy job.
[–] 13436137? 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
The problem are legislators who are unwilling to make sensible investments into public education.
Ahh, the idea that more money will fix it. Hint, it keeps being tried and not working. Paying teachers more will never fix the issues of not allowing them to kick disruptive students out of class, or fail students who don't perform, purposefully aiming to not teach whites in order to bridge the achievement gap, etc
[–] 13436124? ago
They will try to use this model until they realize that it doesn't give them the right results one year. Then they will look for another model. Best measure of how good a teacher is will always be test at first of year then at the end. Difference is how much they learned that year. That indicate how much a teacher was able to teach them.