vocabulary lessons and even games. somebody called direct instructions where there s a teacher explaining to you on the computer. then at the end of each course a comprehensive cumulative test is taken. the assessments are ongoing. the school district always knows where every student in the school is. we have teacher made assessments. we have acuity it is a national assessment that allows us to do a third party evaluation. at carpe diem that information is constantly shared with parents. here it is real time any time any day a parent can log on and see their student s progress. at any given time you can check on and see where the other child is at. dan and diane appreciate the steady flow of feedback. go on-line check in and see where they are at with their
vocabulary lessons and even games. somebody called direct instructions where there s a teacher explaining to you on the computer. then at the end of each course a comprehensive cumulative test is taken. the assessments are ongoing. the school district always knows where every student in the school is. we have teacher made assessments. we have acuity it is a national assessment that allows us to do a third party evaluation. at carpe diem that information is constantly shared with parents. here it is real time any time any day a parent can log on and see their student s progress. at any given time you can check on and see where the other child is at. dan and diane appreciate the steady flow of feedback. go on-line check in and see where they are at with their
teacher does in raising those students over the course of the year. is that the total evaluation? does that no, and that s been a misleading talking point, i think, of the teachers unions, they keep saying, you know, a teacher s evaluation should not be based solely on test scores, no one is arguing that should be the case. the argument is that test scores of students should be part of the mix in evaluating a student s progress. paul: what about from a newspaper editor s point of knew. you re a newspaper editor. do you think it s fair for a newspaper to put 6,000 teacher evaluations, which is not being their total evaluation, performance evaluation, but one substantial part of it, putting it on the web in print for everybody to read? you know, paul. i think i ve said before on this program that the failure of these inner city schools in los angeles is the biggest moral issue in this country and what s there, what is unfair, is class after class of so-called seniors in the
teacher does in raising those students over the course of the year. is that the total evaluation? does that no, and that s been a misleading talking point, i think, of the teachers unions, they keep saying, you know, a teacher s evaluation should not be based solely on test scores, no one is arguing that should be the case. the argument is that test scores of students should be part of the mix in evaluating a student s progress. paul: what about from a newspaper editor s point of knew. you re a newspaper editor. do you think it s fair for a newspaper to put 6,000 teacher evaluations, which is not being their total evaluation, performance evaluation, but one substantial part of it, putting it on the web in print for everybody to read? you know, paul. i think i ve said before on this program that the failure of these inner city schools in los angeles is the biggest moral issue in this country and what s there, what is unfair, is class after class of so-called seniors in the