ED News from the 50states/15880 districts: Multimillionaire equity investor Rex Sinquefeld doesn't like public education. Apparently he doesn't like teachers either. He doesn't think teachers should be evaluated by their administrators but by the standardized test scores of their students. Evidently he doesn't know that this method of evaluating teachers has failed to work wherever it was tried; evidently he doesn't"He was unable to get these ideas adopted by the Missouri state legislature so he created Constitutional amendment 3, which will be on the ballot this fall. If it passes, the problems and costs will begin. Missouri will have to develop tests for every subject that is taught and administer them at the beginning and end of each course. How will Missouri measure the effectiveness of art teachers, music teachers, physical education teachers? Vast new sums must be spent to create |
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