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About. take a third gradeer in the 50th percentile. give him a poor teacher for three years, hes in the 40th or 50th percentile. a teacher isnt good because its young, and isnt bad because its old, but some are really good. we want to encourage them in the classroom. some people who are old are very wise and very gifted. some people who are old arent very good anymore. it happens in all professions, happens in teaching. if we really mean merit and accountability and we want to improve the system...

Do. so the problem is, when you base it only on test scores, thats a very imperfect, imprecise and not particularly fair measure by which to judge a teachers profession on. >> steve perry, thank you. kate walsh on teacher quality, thank you. sarah brown wesley, teacher of the year. a teacher and a corrects officer walk into a protest, if one doesnt do their job, the other gets a new client. plus -- would you stand for 60 kids in your childs classroom. >> ♪ i have clients say its really har...

Of what he says is going to happen, its astonishing. all right, this is the only way to close the gap, so were going to have to close 70 more schools in detroit. that will leave only 72 public schools open by 2014. they closed 59 public schools last year. so theyre whittling these down by the dozens. that would mean 60 kids per high school class. >> detroits problems are detroits problems. look at wisconsin where the problems are completely different, but it is at its core a budget problem. and ...

Your kid being in a classroom with 60 children? thats something that could be a reality in detroit. >> yeah it could. we were just talking before about sort of a lack of any real data that says its a problem for kids. i worry about teachers sanity, 60 kids in a classroom. but thats whats happening. the reality is that people are fleeing thety of detroit. lets show you the numbers. detroits population over the last decade fell 20% but schools saw 50% decline in enrollment. what this is across det...