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"As of last night, 658 principals around the state had signed a letter — 488 of them from Long Island, where the insurrection began — protesting the use of students’ test scores to evaluate teachers’ and principals’ performance.

Their complaints are many: the evaluation system was put together in slapdash fashion, with no pilot program; there are test scores to evaluate only fourth-through-eighth-grade English and math teachers; and New York tests are so unreliable that they had to be rescaled radically last year, with proficiency rates in math and English dropping 25 percentage points overnight.

Mr. Kaplan, who runs one of the highest-achieving schools in the state, has been evaluating teachers since the education commissioner was a teenager. No matter. He is required by Nassau County officials to attend 10 training sessions, as is Carol Burris, the principal of South Side High School here, who was named the 2010 Educator of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State.

“It’s education by humiliation,” Mr. Kaplan said. “I’ve never seen teachers and principals so degraded.” "

The people running the educational system believe this standardization and evaluation to be complete bullshit. So why is it being pushed down their throats? Well, the legislature thinks its a brilliant idea for some reason.

Oh well.

i approve of this movement. saying teachers aren't doing their jobs because kids don't give a shit or some things change from year to year is unfair. i can see where test scores could be used to see if the approach to teaching is working, but there are too many other variables not taken into consideration for test scores to be a major evaluation factor.

Did you say south high. School

i heard there was some type of scandal or something with one of the higschool students about a scholarship and grades. but this is pretty weird too. education by humiliation is ridiculous tho.

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dosent that put us in like both a positive and negative situation cuase like the students get the power to decide who they feel is best to teach but it puts peoples job in danger

I disagree with this meathod. A high school math teacher at my school is an amazing teacher, but the freshmen in his classes just don't get alergabra. Many of them should be in pre-alergabra not alergabra 1, but do to recent buget cuts the pre class was cut down in student size, forcing some student in a harder class. The teachers test scores suck, and not all the blame is on him, so why should his pay be reduced?