Reply #14: I don't know the context here, but... [View All]

[Orsino]

...that statement appears to have a valid point. With teachers good and bad alike overworked, underfunded and underpaid, tied to dumbed-down curricula and forced to teach to tests from lowest-common-denominator books, actual teaching skills can be hard to detect.

If we really wanted to know how well teachers could teach, though, we'd be fully funding education rather than day-care.