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Laundry detergent is developed using CI and TDD(holykaw.alltop.com)
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by gerrys0 15y ago
Yes, teaching to a test should be easy, and it is easy to your median 15-year-old. The gigantic problem with NCLB - and something I've not seen mentioned in this HN story - is that NCLB is a one-size-fits-all mandate, and there is NOTHING a
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by gerrys0 15y ago
Well, to quote from this article about Finland (which another commenter has linked to) "Some testing is thus ultimately necessary, Louhivuori conceded, if only to prove that regular testing is not." http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/8232
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by gerrys0 15y ago
I find that hard to believe, but even if true, so what? There are about half as many teachers in the US as there should be right now.
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by gerrys0 15y ago
Thank you. As I was scanning the comments on this post, I was a bit surprised by the all the "This post was too basic. You are clearly an amateur and wasting my time" comments. Well, to those authors, not everyone on HN is an l337 hax0r suc
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Glass Block LED Matrix, controlled outdoors via Android tablet(hive13.org)
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by gerrys0 15y ago
Re: competition. When I mean work their way out, I mean retirement. Ineffective teachers will retire, and with higher pay, the increased number of applicants for teaching positions will raise the bar for new teachers. In the article, it sai
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by gerrys0 15y ago
This is the key takeaway for me from the article (and also supports my own beliefs). If teachers in the US started earning like doctors and lawyers ($100K-$200K), then many of our education problems would go away. Why? You'd start retaining