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The goal is to find a way to evaluate teachers' abilities.
"It's a low-pressure, high-freedom environment that places absolute trust in its teachers' abilities," they wrote.
Use of these standardized tests as a means to evaluate teachers' abilities serves only to increase both student and teacher anxiety to unnecessary proportions.
The heart of the criticism: the tests measure demographics (the class and wealth level of the students) more than teachers' abilities.
As stated, however, this is just part of the answer to improving teachers' abilities and, most important, providing a rich, full education for each child.
Just as important, Ms. Weingarten said districts that so often take a sink-or-swim approach to teaching should develop support and mentoring programs that both improve teachers' abilities and keep them from leaving the profession.
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Enhance teachers' ability to concentrate and focus.
On Monday, a sweeping education bill that reformed teacher tenure and limited teachers' ability to strike was signed into law.
Father Powis boasted of the teachers' ability to ready the children for kindergarten, but he despaired of their future.
He suggests they end teacher pay increases based on seniority and on master's degrees, which he says are unrelated to teachers' ability to raise student achievement.
My colleague David Streitfeld wrote this week about teachers' ability to monitor the use and study habits of college students using digital textbooks.
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