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Sunday 10 March 2013

Named, ranked and blamed

League tables that measure teachers individually are gaining popularity in the US, but their impact can be catastrophic. One such project resulted in a practitioner taking his own life after a poor rating.
The the story of a dedicated teacher, working in a very dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood who took his life because of a public teacher league table.
We should all look back 20 centuries to Greece and reflect about what the real place of teachers in a society should be.
MP

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6323230

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