Eli has seen the future and it is confused. In a report on
release of teachers rankings, the bunny saw this gem
At a briefing on Friday morning, an Education Department official
said that over the five years, 521 teachers were rated in the bottom 5
percent for two or more years, and 696 were repeatedly in the top 5
percent.
But citing both the wide margin of error — on average, a teacher’s
math score could be 35 percentage points off, or 53 points on the
English exam
Average. Off. Head. Wall. Bang. Notify
Andrew Gelman
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Come on, Eli. Why would America need to cultivate these "logic" and "thought" thangs? America has lots of money, and can simply use the money to buy whatever "logic" and "thought" it happens to need.
And "follow the money" of course means "go wherever the people with a lot of money tell you to go".
-- frank
In shocking news, it was revealed that merely 50% of teachers are above average, and a devastating half of teachers are below average.
Further, according to the official, very serious, very expensive rating system, no one can tell the difference.
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