How students with top test scores actually hurt a teacher's evaluation

Imagine that you are a doctor and your evaluation is based on patients you didnt have. Or a car dealer, and you are assessed by how many cars your colleagues not you sell. It sounds preposterous, right? Well, thats just what is happening to public school teachers. In this school reform era in which high-stakes standardized testing is the chief assessment metric, some teachers are being evaluated in some part on how well...

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