In fact, it compounds the damage by requiring that states evaluate teachers, partially at least, on the basis of yearly gains in students' scores — no matter if the teacher has a different group of children from year to year, which is usually the case, and no matter whether a teacher has more troubled children, or more with disabilities, than another teacher who comes up with higher scores.
An inquiry, with publicly disclosed evidence and results, should have been set up long ago and should still be.If America dealt with its problem more openly, however, it has compounded the damage to its reputation.
Economic reports showing rising unemployment, falling consumer prices and disastrous retail sales compounded the damage.
Ferocious winds in December compounded the damage from an oil spill, and fossil fuels underlie both assaults.
The poll also found that Ms. Boxer had compounded the damage by not being as critical of the President's behavior as many voters would like.
But the attacks compounded the damage here by shaking the confidence of investors, corporate executives and consumers.
Chinese companies have compounded the damage by being overly conservative in their public communications.
Flows of refugees compounded the damage, but the prime cause was economic.
A far-right Supreme Court has compounded the damage by literally defining money as speech and corporations as natural persons.
But Cain also understood that criminalizing addicts only compounded the damages that addiction itself had wrought, and "Blueschild Baby" is a difficult, prickly book in part because it's trying to tell two stories that sit together uneasily: the damage of drugs and the ways this damage has been deployed as moralizing rhetoric.
But if you get mired in it, you can end up compounding the damage.
