OT: New York State has solved the problem of verifying teacher's qualifications...

On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 14:33:50 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:



They're gonna call it: 'The Sloman Initiative' :->

On 03/12/2017 05:54 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:


"The vocabularies of the majority of high-school pupils are amazingly  
small. I always try to use simple English, and yet I have talked to  
classes when quite a minority of the pupils did not comprehend more than  
half of what I said."

-M. W. Smith, "Methods of Study in English," 1889

On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:28:00 -0400, bitrex wrote:



sounds like Orwells nuspeak dictionary.

On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:28:00 -0400, bitrex



Even smaller when the teachers are functionally illiterate.

On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 8:33:58 AM UTC+11, Jim Thompson wrote:


Everybody wants cheap pencil and paper tests for identifying good students  
and good teachers. Nobody wants to pay for the kind of tedious in-depth tes
ting whose results show a decent correlation with in-service performance.

Having an experienced teacher sit in on a numbers of classes being taught b
y a newly hired teacher would be lot more informative than a pencil and pap
er test, and the experienced teacher might even be able to help the new hir
e with advice, but it costs a lot more money.