The Choice Channel

“If you’re lucky, your boss has made it clear to you what it means to do a good job — and rewards you just as clearly for doing it. Teachers aren’t so lucky. First, how do you measure good teaching? How about student test scores? Teachers — and their unions — will tell you that test scores show only part of the picture. … Teachers ask, how can they be held responsible when so much that influences a child’s school performance is out of their control — whether the child got a good night’s sleep (indeed, whether the child had a place to sleep at all), whether the student had breakfast, or is encouraged to do homework, or is living in a household under stress.” (09/30/07)