One has to wonder what it will take for the corporate edu-idiots to notice that there is no evidence to support any, i. e., ANY of their "reform" proposals. The most recent bad news for the billionaire boys club, reported by Valerie Strauss:
"A study released today by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. shows no evidence that the Chicago Teacher Advancement Program improved student math and reading tests when compared with a group of similar schools that did not use the system, Education Week reported...
The analysis looked at the first two years of a four-year program, which has multiple steps, including increased teacher development, and an incentive payment scheme in which teachers are paid more when their students do better on standardized test scores."
...but that isn’t stopping a headlong rush into implementation in school districts across the country.
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/06/more-research-on-teacher-performance.htmlno evidence for anything they're doing -- except the evidence they rigged.
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