Weekly Reading: Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Recently I read an article on nytimes.com that explained a new way of measuring how well a teacher teaches. In New York, teachers will be evaluated on the letter grade scale by how much they improve in a certain time period on their standardized test scores. To avoid controversy the City Department of Education has decided to make these private and not available to the public hand. To initiate it they've devised a pilot program of 2500 teachers just to test it out and see what works, what doesn't work, and what needs to be fixed. This new study will provide valuable information for the progression of more intelligent teachers to produce smarter students to populate and maintain the world. One of the things wished to be accomplished by this plan is to close the intellectual gap between minority groups and white students so that everyone will be educated with the same knowledge making it easier for teachers to teach. This is what i've learned in this weeks weekly reading.