Authored by Grace Carr via The Daily Caller,
California may be a hub for business and technological advancement, but its teachers aren’t matching the success of the state’s entrepreneurs.
A new 2017 survey on teacher effectiveness shows that California teachers are delivering grades just shy of failing. The survey ranked America’s most populous states in teacher preparedness, and California came in multiple letter grades below its companion states according to the 2017 State Teacher Policy Yearbook the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports.
Florida earned a B+, New York a B, Texas a B-, Pennsylvania a C, and California a D-. California also ranks below 31 other public school systems.
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The National Council on Teacher Quality’s 2017 survey sought to evaluate states on their levels of teacher aptitude and preparedness, taking into consideration myriad factors — like compensation — that lead to successful or poor teaching.
The council analyzed nine policy areas in its evaluation of every state in order to obtain its results. California earned a failing grade in hiring, teacher and principal evaluation, and ability to keep good teachers. The council’s survey also showed that since it last measured teacher effectiveness in 2015, little progress has been made in California.
“States’ teacher policies have an enormous impact on the quality of education in the state,” council managing director of state policy Elizabeth Ross told the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
“The inability of California to name what an effective teacher is creates the conditions where we go round and round,” Tony Smith, a former school superintendent and education regulation backer also said in a critique of the state school systems’ cyclical ineffectiveness, the Sentinel reports.
California earned its best grade — a B — in teacher compensation, largely a result of the state’s extremely high cost of living.
The Golden State has earned D’s since the council’s first survey in 2009.
The survey comes after records showed that the majority of graduating students at Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., did not attend more than six weeks of class but still managed to be accepted into college. Almost half of the graduates had unexcused absences totaling more than three months of missed school and roughly 20 percent were absent more times than they were present for classes.
The ‘teacher education’ system in California weeds out competent people. The farther you are from being a tranny communist pedophile, the less California wants you as a teacher or school administrator.
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Is there any other state that has such a divide between state secondary schools and state universities? Looks like California residents will be studying at the University of Phoenix while the University of California campuses will be full of Chinese…
Can’t be much worse that the Baltimore City system teachers : everybody get a 60 eben doe dey didu nuttin !
If they’d concentrated their efforts on the three R’s instead of regressive libtardism they’d be in much better shape, and so would the kids.
As much as I like to criticize California, they did not earn a D- as the article says. They got a D+. Now my great state of Oregon got the D- along with Alaska. Only two states got Fs.
So FU California, we suck more than you do and our liberal deep blue state is damn proud of it!
Maybe if we stopped recruiting in Chicago and started gleaning teachers from quality school systems..anybody know where BW went to grade school? Like I said so many times before, I thank God I went to school in Texas. California morans (aka California Natives) abound. I mean, the adults I met here are maroons, sorry Maggie.
I had a long chat with an LA school teacher just last night. She was inspirational. But she is fighting a losing battle, and knows it. She works 12 hour days, and has 30 kids in her class.
An example of what she faces: she says many of the parents of the kids will not allow books in the home. At all. That she says she is not allowed to fail any student, no matter how poorly the child does. That kids routinely miss school because they are beaten, or have to take care of their drunk or drugged mother or father that day. That kids are not permitted to speak English at home, or if it is a black family, proper English is punished as you must speak the “language” of the hood, or else.
As shitty as many teachers are, this young woman assuredly was not that. But she has no hope in successfully teaching those kids. And she knows it. She is trying to give them a chance, which is admirable, but will prove impossible.
Cut welfare to zero. Send the illegals back to whence they came. Stop pandering to Spanish, and forbid any govt literature, signs, etc., to be in Spanish, and do not provide special classes for kids who do not speak English (they will be fluent soon enough, if tossed in the deep end).
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