PUP-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, School Choice, Merit Pay
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Concepts: funding public educaion, achievement gap, teacher quality, no child let behind, common core standards k-12. College atendance: standardized tests: reading/ math scores, non-cogniive skills, wrote learning rather than creaivity. Quality gaps: racial, economic, disability, and gender gaps, quality of schools in poor rural and urban areas. Diferences in educaional achievement between diferent groups. Gender bias against women, black and hispanics. Teacher quality is lower than past: 1999 study, half of students have unqualiied teachers in physical sciences, 2002 study, classes taught out of ield , exacerbated in rural and poor areas. Quality teachers hard to atract and retain: incenives for good teaching. Salary, tenure: best and brightest students don"t go into teaching. Compare to finland: top 10% of students enter required masters program to teach. Greater accountability for schools: statewide proiciency tesing (like fact, all students proicient by 2014. Must meet benchmarks in subgroups: minoriies, english learners and the poor: schools graded on quality.
