continue to practice education research without a license and don't know squat about anything. Home factors including poverty, transience, and language barriers are far more valid indicators of whether the students learn than who they have for teachers.
Not to mention teachers may have more second-language and special education students, whose "gains" will be less than those teachers who have "highly-motivated" students.
And to say nothing of the fact kids don't take standardized tests seriously.
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