I love to visit the state of Florida on vacation but, with all due respect, the state is totally wackadoodle. Florida will be paying a $10,000 bonus for having high SAT/ACT scores. . . to its teachers. Yes, I said teachers, not students.
I’m guessing that even in Florida teachers tend to have college degrees. So it would make a bit (although still not a lot) of sense to reward high college GPA. But what an SAT score of a teacher who passed the test sometime during the Carter administration is supposed to tell us today is a mystery.
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This is aimed at people entering college, not people who are already graduated. There’s a dearth of teachers and with Florida’s emphasis on testing, they hope to induce higher test scoring college students to major in education and hopefully become teachers. They think someone who got good test scores on a high stakes test will be able to get their students to do the same. In addition there’s a common perception that the people who go into teaching have the lowest test scores of any major (education majors make easy A’s) and this bonus is supposed to counteract that.
See this and this.
Never mind the legislature keeps cutting funding for education, and the old and wealthy people have no interest in funding education, young students are supposed to rush into teaching!
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I think I read that the SAT scores for people choosing the major are the lowest, but that the graduates of education programs have scores that match the average for other majors.
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It still makes a lot more sense to reward high college GPAs. Otherwise, why not go straight to kindergarten records?
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I thought you were writing about the general insanity that seems to float around Florida. West of the Mississippi the craziest of the crazies are pulled out to California, East of the Mississippi they seem to seep down into Florida.
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