Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Weekly News Blog November 10, 2009

This week's blog posting is an argument about Education...specifically, rating schools versus rating teachers on how they work effectively to raise student achievement.

Please read the following article, and define the author's argument, as well as include your own thoughts and personal argument on the topic. :-)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2009/11/those_unfortunate_people_in_th.html?hpid=sec-education

49 comments:

  1. The authors main idea of this argument is that the problem with students having a hard time on education isn't from the teachers but the principals who have overall control of the school. And i definetly agree with his statment, personally from what i have seen in our school, at Bell Multicultural High school, teachers have been let go thinking that they weren't performing good enough for young students like us. That's not what we were told, we were informed that the teachers have been fired as a result of economical issues of the country. I doubt that, because the principal have been beringing in new and rookie teachers but firing the ones with long term experiance. I belive that is a very wrong decission made by the principal or who ever made accountable for doing such thing. Like the jay Mathews said, "Forget about rating teachers---rate schools instead." Basically, when he say rate schools, he meant to say who ever is on the high power controling the teachers. So in order to give better education for students, the teachers need to be selected carefully and reasonablly by the principal, so teachers cannot be blamed for quality of the education becuase they are chosen by the principal thinking that they can do job and they are well fit.

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  2. The main part of the argument is that people who trust the different schools because it never say from the US. "I was thinking about my own future". Also the story takes in a better culture and the same place. And finally that people likes to be a perfect argument.

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  3. The concept of rating each teacher compared to rating the school as a whole can have its differences. As in the article confers how the evaluation of teachers throughout several school districts in the area, there's a common sequence of teachers receiving high ratings. The amount of teachers with high ratings wouldn't add on to the success of a school but better conceived as a way to annex job security. As well this would make it harder to recognize those teachers that truly excel in their job. Yet one will have to still keep in mind that the focus in a schools environment is to help students achieve. As teachers are vital in a school, the students are just as important if not more. As a student, a teacher accounts for a lot in for helping us but there are other individuals in the building like the principal or administrators that also add on to helping a student. The evaluation of an entire school would be most beneficial to contemplate whether a school is performing well.

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  4. The concept of this article is that they prefer ratings of the teachers versus the whole school performance in general they care about the teachers ratings.teacher evaluations, which are usually done by principals and subject specialists.if there ratings are high then they feel that they doing thier job but they don’t impress some advocates of better teaching because of the unsatisfactory,i agree with this The standard evaluation system “not only keeps schools from dismissing consistently poor performers, but also prevents them from recognizing excellence among top performers

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  5. "Forget about rating teachers---rate schools instead," is an article written by Jay Mathews. The article argues the idea of rating schools as a whole rather than rating teachers as individuals. I came to agree with the article because its not only what a single teacher is doing, but what the entire school is doing to prepare a student. Rating teachers is current huge issue in DC. Especially, because of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. She has "launched her complex IMPACT evaluation of the District’s teachers is that the research and training organization she founded, the New Teacher Project, is a sworn enemy of those standard evaluation systems." Ms. Rhee is on a mission to find all the teachers who are not up to standards to teach student. She believes students should have an excellent education and that isn't possible with unsatisfactory teachers. Many cities of the U.S. teachers are being rated and it is most shocking that almost all teachers are meeting or exceeding the standard. For instance, "Alexandria 99 percent, Calvert 99.8 percent, Charles 98.4 percent, Culpeper 97 percent, Fairfax 99.1 percent, Falls Church 99.55 percent, Loudoun 99 percent, Montgomery 95 percent, Prince George’s 95.56 percent, and Prince William 98.3 percent." I understand there are better teachers than others, well I say then help those teachers to become better instructors! Don't give up on them as they don't give up on the students.

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  6. The author’s argument is that instead of school districts rating teachers on expensive scales that just waste time and money they should rate the school as a whole and see the performance rate there. I agree with this because the way that a teacher performs depends on the school and the support that they lend to the teacher. It is impossible to see whether or not students achieve based off teachers because every teacher has a different approach to teaching the same curriculum so it would then be more helpful for school districts to evaluate the entire school and not just different bits and pieces. Not only is the evaluation of teachers a costly and wasteful time but it also doesn’t allow the school districts to see whether or not the students are actually learning but it instead targets the teachers who are there to help the students but what they teach is based off what the school principal allows them to teach. By taking the approach to better the entire school and not just teachers, school districts will be able to achieve a more effective performance amongst students.

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  7. The concept of this article is that they prefer ratings of the teachers versus the whole school performance.The author’s argument is that instead of school districts rating teachers individualy they should rate schools as a whole.Teachers have been let go thinking that they weren't performing good enough. That their way of teaching isnt helping the students. In DC this happens often. teachers are being fired because they didnt pass the assesment. when the principal or an administrator can to evaluate them in class.I agree with what cindy morales said " I understand there are better teachers than others, well I say then help those teachers to become better instructors! Don't give up on them as they don't give up on the students." Its true that there are others that can teach better. but it seems as though that if a teacher is doing something wrong then thats not good enough. they give up most of their time to teach and to check papers and lesson plan. The teachers that arent doing so good in teaching should be able to have a work shop or something to improve their teaching skills.

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  8. "Forget about rating teachers-rate school insted" is on article that argument about people in the distric may worry about quality of their and wait anxiously for the result of the school system's controversial new evolution of classroom techniques and test score improment.I totality agree with the article because this is a good manner to help a students and that teachers can helping to prepere more in the future. But most cities dont live this type of worry about about rating teaches,in washinton areas suburbs donthave to worry because they already know that close 100 percent of our teachers are entirely satisfactory. for example Calvert 99.8 percent charles 98.4 percent culpeper 97 percent.These are some of the most school that have satisfactori teachers and student, the meaning about this is that this helpin to grow up the skill of the student and teaches. Because the goal of the teachers teach and helping to the students to find agreat ways in thir education and also help to improve and obtain a excellent grade.

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  9. The author’s argument in “Forget about rating teachers- rate schools instead,” is that the teacher evaluations being conducted are not effective so school officials should just stop wasting there time. “I agree that 99.8 percent satisfactory evaluation rates are ridiculous. Stop wasting time and money on them evaluate, reward, promote or dismiss teachers any way that works for them (principals).” I agree with the author because if all the teachers were doing a satisfactory job we would not be talking about this problem in the first place. Teachers are not the only ones who play into the equation of a broken education system but they do play a huge role in it.

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  11. The author is Jay Mathews an education columnist who argues the instead of getting teachers fired/evaluated the principals should be pointed the finger for low improvement scores in school. I fairly agree in many cases I believe that principals should be weighed to see if they pass criteria. Half of the time the principals is in power and sometimes he/she is useless. Having a new leader would lower so many teachers to be laid off. DCPS should take this into consideration.

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  12. The author argument basiclly is to rate teacher in school. In this case he is trying to communicate to school principal to be truly confident when they doteacher evaluetions. "here are same porcentage of teacher rated, Alexandria 99%, Calvert 99.55 %, Charlers 98.4%, Culpper 99%, Fairfax 99.1%." This mean that in suburban shool there are good teacher that are fulfill the student and school,but the author also wrote. " those numbers in 90s sound good, but they don't impress some advocate of better teaching." In many schools around the world, usually there is one to three teachers who are not doing good.Sometime student don't want to learn,teachers can have the most highest degree in teach, but when someone don't want tolearn thereis nothing to do by the teachers.

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  13. In the article, “Forget about rating teachers---rate schools instead,” by Jay Mathews, argues that people in DC, mostly parents shouldn't worry about teachers. People shouldn't worry about the qualify of teachers because data shows that they’re doing excellent in classroom techniques and test scores improvements. That instead of worrying about the teachers, instead they should worry about the school. “Here are the percentages of teachers rated satisfactory, in some cases called meeting or exceeding the standard: Alexandria 99 percent, Calvert 99.8 percent, Charles 98.4 percent, Culpeper 97 percent, Fairfax 99.1 percent, Falls Church 99.55 percent, Loudoun 99 percent, Montgomery 95 percent, Prince George’s 95.56 percent, and Prince William 98.3 percent.” Here are documents that show that teachers are doing well teaching. It explains in the article that they “are doing a splendid job” explains Jay Mathews. I agree with Jay Mathews because I as a student have seen and feel the difference each year on how teachers are getting more prepare year by year to teach their best. I have also experimented how teachers are using different strategies in order to help us as students, in order for us to learn as much as possible. Furthermore, as teachers use different strategies they are using different ways of teaching because they have seen that there are students who learn as visual, auditory and on and on. People, students, parents and others shouldn’t be worry about the teachers we have today because they’re doing their best and statistics show those improvements in teaching areas.

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  14. I agree with Jay Mathews' argument about evaluating an entire school instead of firing teachers because of their performance. In the article "Forget about rating teachers---rate schools instead" Mathew focuses on providing statistics of areas in which the schools are exceeding standards. Areas such as Alexandria, Prince George, Fairfax and others are all rated above a 90%. I for one dislike teachers being fired. Even though there are some teachers who annoy some students, you can't just fire them for that simple reason. It's reasonable to fire a teacher if he/she has underperformed consecutively for years. Meaning the students keep getting F's or students complain about the teachers teaching skills. Principals also play a role in the schools performance. They decide which students to hire and fire. The principals must hire teachers that will provide a comfortable environment, display a positive attitude, and most importantly respect the students no matter what.

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  15. In the article “Forget about rating teachers rate schools instead” by the columnist Jay Mathews argue that is favorable evaluate the entire schools that each teacher as the result that the District will can waste time and funds. However, I’m agree with the issue for the reason that each member of schools work together as teacher, counselor, principals etc. so if them effort mutually they be able to assist their students to upgrade their learning, and basically the district wouldn’t waste time and money. As Mathews articulate that in several settlement gets higher score in their evaluation as “Alexandria 99 percent, Calvert 99.8 percent, Charles 98.4 percent, Culpeper 97 percent, Fairfax 99.1 percent, Falls Church 99.55 percent, Loudoun 99 percent, Montgomery 95 percent, Prince George’s 95.56 percent, and Prince William 98.3 percent.” Well basically he confirms those teachers are performing well in their vocation because they obtain excellent rating in their school evaluation. Nevertheless if the District evaluates just teacher works it can origin a negative effect in D.C. schools.

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  16. Jay Mathews argues in his article "forget about rating teachers" that teacher evaluations are a waste of time and money. He believes that "99.8 percent satisfactory evaluation rates are ridiculous." And I agree with him. Principals and schools give teachers’ ridicules standard they have to meet that are met to help the students learn but most of the time they don't make a difference. What is use to evaluate teachers is not what the teachers use to teach their students! I say if the student is becoming more knowledgeable and doing their work then the teacher is doing their job.

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  17. the arguement in this article is to stop rating teachers and to start rating the school.In my own views we should keep rating the teacher because each have thier own way of teaching and if the school is rated it wont really tell you that the school is good or not.rating teachers helps you know if the teachers are doing a good job if thier students are learning what they need to know and if not you give them a bad rating and know how to watch and see if they improve on how they teach.principals should pay attention to teachers and see if their doing there job seeing over the years if a teacher is doing thier job they should stay and if not should get fired or make them change the way they teach.

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  18. In the article called “Forget about rating teachers---rate schools instead.” By Jay Mathews it states that he disagrees with the fact that most school districts rates teacher on whose not a good teacher and whose an excellent teacher and instead of wasting their time on doing something like that, they should rate school as a whole. He said “I agree that 99.8 percent satisfactory evaluation rates are ridiculous. Stop wasting time and money on them. Instead, emulate those schools--mostly public charters--that choose principals carefully and let them evaluate” I agree with Mathews because it has been said that the percent of the satisfactory evaluation is great as it is so why should schools districts still be wasting their time in things that are already in good qualities.

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  19. Jay Mathews, author of the article “Forget about rating the teachers---rate the schools instead” believes that it is best to rate schools as a whole instead of just rating teachers individually. Teachers are often let go because they don’t meet the criteria that the school has set forth. I agree with this because teachers shouldn’t be judge on a scale that waste time and money as well. Mathews believes that “Bonuses should go to the whole school to be divvied up, not to individual teachers.” This will persuade teachers into doing a better job because they will all want a piece of that bonus. This will be a more effective strategy in providing students with a more comprehensive learning since the pressure of meeting the schools criteria will be off. A new teacher project stated that, “The standard evaluation system “not only keeps schools from dismissing consistently poor performers, but also prevents them from recognizing excellence among top performers” This evaluation was set in D.C by chancellor, Michelle H. Rhee.

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  20. In the article "Forget about rating teachers---rate schools instead" by Jay Mathews, the main argument of the authors is that teachers shouln't be rate. I 'm disagree with him because teachers are the one that make sure students succees in thier academic study and i think that they should be award for their hard because its not easy to deal with hundreds of students every day. Additionally,I'm disagree when Jay Mathews say " Bonuses should go to the whole school to be divvied up, not to individual teachers and if teachers are fleeing in disgust, get rid of them". I'm totally disagree with what Jay said because it wouldn't be beneficial for students in general to fired teachers with many years of experience just to hire new ones. Why get rid of teachers if they are doing a good job.

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  21. The author of this article is arguing that they chose to rate schools instead of teacher. This Are the rating that the article gave” Alexandria 99 percent, Calvert 99.8 percent, Charles 98.4 percent, Culpeper 97 percent, Fairfax 99.1 percent, Falls Church 99.55percent, Loudoun 99 percent, Montgomery 95 percent, Prince George’s 95.56 percent, and Prince William 98.3 percent." This show how the school was rated. I think as a student we
    Should be concern because if they don’t start evaluating how would we as student get a
    Good education.

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  22. In the article "Forget about rating teachers--- rate schools instead." the author's argument is that schools should have principals that try yo make the schools better. In my opinion I think that the blame should be put on the students not on teachers or schools depending where the problem is. For instance, teachers are given what they are to teach the students and are evaluated during their teaching time. But what they don't take into notice is the the majority of students don't wnat to learn and make the teachers have a tough time throughout the day. I nmy believe students are the ones that should be held responsible for their learning. Teahcers do their job in trying to teach the one's that want to learn. If not all of their class wants to learn it isn't their fault because their getting paid and have learned what they need to know in life. Students should have want to learn and not be given prizes just to attend schools (DC elementary and middle schools). "Principals and supervisors work hard with teachers to improve instruction," said Keith Hettel, assistant superintendent. Although teachers and principals work hard to give students a good education, it's not enough to make students actually pay attentio to them and want to learn. Overall, I think that even if their are some teachers that dont know how to teach it mostly depends on the student and their will of learning....

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  23. I believe the argument in this article is that individual teacher evaluation is not as suffiecient as rating the school as a whole. I personally agree with this argument because individually, teachers have different strategies that work for different students, and personal teaching methods cannot be compared or equated with another teacher with contrasting methods. Therefore, it is more efficient to measure the school as a whole to oversee overall progress, cooperation, and school education implementation.

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  24. What this article is about is that they are grading school and techers. And the author is talking about how that is not the best idea on how to impove things. For example"“not only keeps schools from dismissing consistently poor performers, but also prevents them from recognizing excellence among top performers or supporting growth among the broad plurality of hard working teachers who operate in the middle of the performance spectrum.” So they are cuting programs that could be helpful for some students. Also not very one learns the same. So what they are cuting could help out a student in the long fun. Also they only are recognizing when the school as a whole does something that is good. So if you would do good in school they really wouldn't care. But if you help bring the reat of your school up then they care.

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  25. The argument posed by the author is that "Bonuses should go to the whole school to be divvied up, not to individual teachers." I disagree with their statement. I've experience a school where some teachers put in great effort while others do not. In reality, this is inevitable. I believe there is never going to be a time where all teachers in a school district is going to be great. Therefore, with giving all teachers in a school bonuses, there will be extra money going to those who do not deserve it. In addition, with " the New Teacher Project" that was started by D.C. school Chancelor Micheller A. Rhee, it can detect some of these bad teachers and give the money to great teachers who've earned it.

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  26. Inthe article"Class Strugle" by Jay Mathews. The authors refer about education and rating teachers, and also accrodingto the author argument is that principal should be the ones to evaluate teacherand. they should decide whether or not they should teach in school and rated them. Also there is one example that shows that most teacher are rated as a good scored. the goverment should go to the whole school and evaluated principals and let them to do their job. Not to teachers, there is a another idea from the article as a person opinion "Principals and supervisors work hard with teachers to improve instruction,” said Keith Hettel, this demostrate how the whole school system work together to have a better teaching enviroment.

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  27. The author's argument is that instead of wasting time and money on rating the performence of teachers, they should focus more on evaluating the school as a whole and determine data from their. I agree with this article for the simple fact that teachers only make up one portion of a school, a school also consists of students and other faculty memebers who can also help bring down the school in rating. We should focus on evaluating all parts that make up a school, and see where we can make improvements, rather than waste time on only teachers. Jay Mathews, author of the article says, "I agree that 99.8 percent satisfactory evaluation rates are ridiculous" That percent indeed is extremely high, and two points less from 100 is still an A in grading scale so technically DC public school teachers are very effective and should be concentrated on less. The article says that in all county's the majority if the teacher rating's are in the 90's os why waste time on evaluating teachers? clearly they are not the biggest problem. Mathews also says, "get rid of that principal and hire a better one. It will reduce paperwork, and free more time for teaching kids. " He probably is correct, maybe it is not the teacher maybe it is the principal. Probably the way the principal is taking on action is not in favor of her and maybe she indeed is the problem. A school bulding is like a big process, bits and pieces make it up, so if one part isn't functioning it all wont as a whole, so important this is to fix that problem so it can be considered a school system.

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  28. In the article,"Forget About Rating Teachers--Rate Schools Instead" by Jay Mathews, the author argues that teachers shouldn't be rated by their teaching skills. His argument is that the school in general should be rated. I had came to an agreement with this argument because all teachers have their own style for teaching. They way a teacher teaches their students does not compare to how the school works in general. In other words, teachers shouldn't be rated alone but the school should be rated as a whole and they should be rated by how they work together to make the school better.

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  29. the author's argument is that if a school is not being sussesfuly effective in students they better replace the teachers for a better one or if Principals and supervisors work hard with teachers to improve instruction the results will be better. here something that he said, "but the quality of teachers and administrators I have watched in the last decade is usually high and the results good." so his argument is that in order for a shools to be effective on student, the teachers and administrators most work hard and together. in my opinion i think he is right because the school is not the problem. the problen is what the staffs make out of it. if the school have goods teachers, administrators, and principal the school defenaly will be wave better.

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  30. The article “Forget about rating teachers--- rate schools instead” is about an issue going on today society. The author argument is that the school should not worry as much to rate teacher individual nut as to rate the school as one. I agree with this because the school achievement is better than a teacher. In the article, it said, “Bonuses should go to the whole school to be divvied up, not to individual teachers.” I agree with this as a teacher I believe it’s a part of your job to do your best but bonuses should not all go to teachers depending on there high rate scale of how they teach. I understand that the teachers’ way of teaching is important but more important is the performance of student as a whole. Most school receives money on school performance so why should they rate teachers rather than the school.

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  31. the author mean all people should be forget about rating teachers and rate school instead, author don't want rating teacher affect to students results. because the student should be learned and studied, but school office to share the latest results from their teacher evaluation, which are usually done by principals and subject specialists.
    the article is about education and teacher evaluation. I think it is not right, because the student should be making teacher evaluation that student and parent could be understand which one teacher is best, in the article said 95% of teachers are entirely satisfactory I don't believer that because it is implies they aren't normally distributed.
    I agree the author idea, because in the USA have more good teacher, only have little bad, we should be use teacher evaluation prompt to bad teacher, what is responsibility for teacher?

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  32. The main point of this article is to inform parent that education is not only teachers' responsibilities, the school should also be inclueded. I totally agreed with this point, sometime the teacher can't teach the way they wanted to teach, so some great teacher cant fully display their teaching skills.

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  33. The argument on this article should not be a surprise for many in the district area. The author simply reinstates that some teachers are performing poor and others are just doing better in some other districts. and whether or not our teachers in the district are doing bad or good they are still working hard to provide the best education for everyone yet.

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  34. The argument of this article, according to the speaker is instead of rating the satisfactory of teachers, the school officals should rate the schools while it does not help on better education at all. I agree with the argument, as the author states in the editorial, getting a near perfect rating is very common in this country, this is bothering those schools from emulate schools that are serious on rating instead just give everyone a trophy. And i don't think the satisfactory rate has any thing to do with whether a teacher is valuable, because the teachers talent might not be reflected on the evaluation. Also, the education is not just teachers business, but students', teacher are not suppose to take all the responsibility of bad education. Therefore i agree to rate schools by the overall performance.

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  35. The main thing is to inform everyone that education is not oly teacher responsiblities, each of individual has responsible for their learning. The argument of this article is that take out teachers.I think they should not take out teacher because they provided to the student with good learning and teaching that can give us a value from it. But others disagree with me because other people see some teacher perform poor and did not provided help.Some poeple think they get paid more money.I disagree with other people said about this because almost all teacher do their best they can to help student learn and also teacher take their time aftershool to help them. Thats why teacher should not take out from school even if they get paid more money because teacher help student to successed in school.Everyone should be responsible for their learning.

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  36. In the article "Forget about rating teachers-rate schools instead" Jay Mathew argues that teacher evaluations is a waste of time and money. Instead they should worry about principles that arent doing their job and hire better ones. The standard evaluation system fails to promote teachers who exceed in their performaces and also dissmisses thoses who are considered to be poor performers. In my personal opinion, if they want to rate teachers as individuals than they might as well take the time to rate the whole school and see if the principle is doing its job. In the school that i attend i have seen a lot of great performing teachers who have left the school or were fired. i dont understand how many teachers who do their job very well are being fired. is it because the principle is not doing his or her job well? in some cases it is not the teachers fault that students dont want to learn and they are doing their job as teaching. indeed it is the teachers responsibility to teach students, however you cannot force those who refuse to learn. on the other hand i think that teacher evaluations is a good thing because it lets the principle know what the teachers weakness is and help them strenghten those areas. however many principles would not want to waste their time in helping thoses teachers who have poor performances. istead they would fire them and problem solved. As a result i think that if they want to rate an individual than they should rate the whole school including its principle.

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  37. The argument in this article is that rating teachers in schools is a waste of time and money. I believe that the only person or people in general are the students. If students are the one making the decision to keep bad teachers is on them. Everyone has the right to a fair education when they have teachers teach them, but teacher's have a responsibility towards their students also. If a principle or school district rates the teachers then they are thinking on their prospective, not the students prospective. Students know what to look for in a teacher and how they want to be taught but, students also carry the responsibility of how their education should taught. So to me rating teachers is pointless if the student does not decide how they want to be taught.

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  38. in my opinion the arthur argument is "The standard evaluation system “not only keeps schools from dismissing consistently poor performers, but also prevents them from recognizing excellence among top performers or supporting growth among the broad plurality of hard working teachers who operate in the middle of the performance spectrum,” said a recent New Teacher Project" according to this the argument is that how to make things better and have a good performance teachers. in my opinion the principles is not doing the right thing because they suspended good teacher the one who work hard and who have a lot of experience. in my opinion or the argument that i can make is how are they gonna have a good teacher if they fired the one who have a lot of experience already. Basically there needs to be a better principal in order to make this kind of valuable decisions on student's future, because this are the kind of mistakes that people make that they regret. So DCPS needs to think carefully and make the right choice and be not blindsided by the economical problem.

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  39. The main argument the writer is trying to convey readers is that students don't lack knowdlege because of the teachers but because of the principal who varies to understanding students concepts of a well relevant education. I believe that this is true, I believe that principals are the main reason why there are so many drop outs believe it or not principals don't think it twice when it comes to making a decision. As they tell u once they won't tell you twice because by then it will be too late. As I attend Columbia Heights Educational Campus I have notice that many students lack confidence in their own work as well as understanding because they have fear that what they are doing is not the righ thing to do. Teachers are vulnerable to do anyhing they can not interfere with a principal decision because they have no right to do so. Students often feel moraly abused by their principal who instigates and worries about small mistakes. I happen to be Excited to leave but desapointed for those who stay

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  40. The author’s dispute in “Forget about rating teachers- rate schools instead,” is that the teacher evaluations are completely pointless so school administration shouldn't even bother evaluating them . “I agree that 99.8 percent satisfactory evaluation rates are ridiculous. stop using your valuable time and money on them evaluate, reward, promote or dismiss teachers any way that works for them (principals).” I have the same opinion as the author because if all the teachers were doing a gratifying job we would never even have this dilemma. Teachers are not the only problem of a broken education organization, but they are one of the major troubles of it.

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  41. The author's argument is that school districts spend entirely too much money evaluating teachers versus improving the overall student education. I totally AGREE and feel that test scores dont reflect a teacher's ability to teACH. It does not reflect the student ability to leanr either. Evaluations are unneccesary and should be eliminated.

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  42. i agree with Jay Mathews because I as a student have seen and feel the difference each year on how teachers are getting more prepare year by year to teach their best. But its really hard for them to teach because the teacher teach what they tell them to teach.

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  43. In the article, “Forget about rating teachers---rate schools instead,” by Jay Mathews, argues that people in DC, mostly parents shouldn't worry about teachers. I agree with this article for the simple fact that teachers only make up one portion of a school, a school also consists of students and other faculty memebers who can also help bring down the school in rating. If a principle or school district rates the teachers then they are thinking on their prospective, not the students prospective.

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  44. The author's argument is that they should focus more on evaluating the school as a whole and determine data from their instead of wasting time and money on rating the performence of teachers. The school is not only made up of teachers, but with students, and other faculty member. Once everyone evaluates the school there would be a more accurate evaluation. Jay Mathews, author of the article says, "I agree that 99.8 percent satisfactory evaluation rates are ridiculous" That percent indeed is extremely high, and two points less from 100 is still an A in grading scale so technically DC public school teachers are very effective and should be concentrated on less. The article says that in all county's the majority if the teacher rating's are in the 90's why waste time on evaluating teachers? clearly they are not the biggest problem. Mathews also says, "get rid of that principal and hire a better one. It will reduce paperwork, and free more time for teaching kids." Going back to the evauluation of the whole school, everyone should be taken into consideration. There may be people that work in the school that do not agree with one another. Everyone in the school building is whole make up the whole, and with a missing gruops, there is no way that the school can function properly.

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  45. I believe that the govenment should fix the problems because we all concern about alot of students getting a low greades and droping out from school.This is because students need more teachers to help them with their education and to raise students achievement. Also I believe that for more education and rating schools and rating teachers will help to raise student achievement.

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  46. I think that the article "Forget about rating teachers--rate schools instead", by Jay Mathews, is very true. Mathews tries to say how people shouldnt judge the teachers but the schools. This is true because if anything all teachers get the same education for being who they are and if they got a diploma from it its because they did good with it. The schools should be judged because they are the ones who have a certain order on how school should be and they way the teachers have to teach. Schools should also realize who they are bringing in to teach because they are teaching a bunch of different students with different skills.

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  47. In the article Jay Mathews, the writer, tells how teachers shouldnt be judged. My opinion is that they shouldnt because its not there fault if a student fails in school or the school isnt well in the academic level. All teachers go to grad school to get a diploma to teach. If anything schools should be judge since they are the ones who have an order on they way they will be teaching the students.

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  48. In the article Jay Mathews, the writer, talks about how teachers shouldnt be judged. The argument in this article is that rating teachers in schools is a waste of time and money. I believe that principals are the main reason why there are so many drop outs.. In the article, it said, “Bonuses should go to the whole school to be divvied up, not to individual teachers.” The authors is refering to education and rating teachers, and also accrodingto the author argument is that principal should be the ones to evaluate teacher and they should decide whether or not they should teach in school and rated them. Also there is one example that shows that most teacher are rated as a good scored. the goverment should go to the whole school and evaluated principals and let them to do their job.

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  49. This artical's main argument is that teachers should not be judge and they should not be rated. I would say to rate the schools not just the teachers. There are many great teacher who are also wonderful instructors but there are also other teacher that are not so great! so what! no one is perfect! Throughout the years they get better and better. A teacher could be great at teaching but also if the school does not provide anything good, than whats the point? The schools also need to be evaluated. It all depends no what the school provides. sometimes its hard for students to get good grades because of the academic grdae level they are in or on what the schools offer them! The principal should also be evaluated to let them know what they need to do better!

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