The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a “massive boycott” of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.And tell me again how you evaluate students??
“You’re leading people in a dangerous direction, making it seem like you can judge the quality of a teacher by … a test,” said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has more than 40,000 members.
Duffy said he would urge other labor groups to ask their members to cancel their subscriptions.
Based on test score data covering seven years, The Times analyzed the effects of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers on their students’ learning. Among other things, it found huge disparities among teachers, some of whom work just down the hall from one another.
This could be tough for the Times. They might lose their last five subscribers.
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Oh mercy, this is like touching the Holy Grail. The teachers do NOT want anyone questioning their teaching period. Many of today's teachers cannot even pass a college entrance exam anymore. It's a sad day for our educational system indeed. A lot of teachers don't even give out homework anymore, guess they are just too lazy to grade papers. No wonder we graduate kids from high school and they don't have the slightest idea how to make correct change, spell, or make an intelligent conversation.
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