Comments on: Educational pioneer? Not this state http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2009/07/27/educational-pioneer-not-this-state/ What's on the minds of Tacoma News Tribune editorial writers Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: sloremodeler http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2009/07/27/educational-pioneer-not-this-state/#comment-7113 sloremodeler Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:29:41 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2009/07/27/educational-pioneer-not-this-state/#comment-7113 Another “victory” for the WEA (Washington Education Association)! Strike another accolade for a union whose interest is totally self serving. They oppose everything from school reform to Charter Schools. Like health care, most Washington residents recognize that our education system has serious problems. Yet any effort at raising the bar gets defeated by the WEA.

]]> By: Bob http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2009/07/27/educational-pioneer-not-this-state/#comment-7112 Bob Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:01:03 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2009/07/27/educational-pioneer-not-this-state/#comment-7112 “…A state must connect data on student performance to individual teachers. The logic for this is blindingly obvious: The data connection can not only help evaluate teachers, it can help evaluate the curriculum they use, the schools of education that trained them and the effectiveness of their principals…”

Fantastic idea. Finally someone has it right.

We’ll collect data on the student performance of a school full of gang bangers to their teachers and also collect data on the student performance of the sons and daughters schools of doctors, lawyers, rocket scientists, etc. to their teachers.

We’ll throw it in a database and all the worlds problems will be solved.
Maybe I missed that course in college where they throw apples and oranges in a blender and come up with honey?

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