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Memo Reveals How Student Output Data Incentivizes Teachers
Memo: M. Jones, teacher 3B; 3/17/14, 9:30:02 a.m.
From: Office of Data Management
CC: Bill Gates, Arne Duncan, Business Roundtable, National PTA
Re: Student performance between 9:15 am and 9:30 am, 3/17/14
Please be advised that our quarter-hour calculations comparing the efficacy of your Common Core lesson has fallen short of that achieved by teachers in 3A, 3C, 3D in our district and also 57.432% of third grade teachers participating in the Smarter Balanced and PARCC Consortia, putting the students in your charge at risk of failing to meet college- and career-ready goals.
As you know, we are committed to making optimal use of student data to ensure the optimum delivery of Common Core objectives. We can measure student outputs from your students with those of students of your peers across the US.
Feeding this information into our scientific equation, validated by the Harvard and Stanford Graduate Schools of Education, the US Chamber of Commerce, Achieve, and General Motors, we produce a ranking with the goal of helping you improve your efficacy.
Failure to effect an efficacy improvement placing you above Teacher 3A and Teacher 3C and at least 52% of third grade teachers working in the Smarter Balanced and PARCC consortia at the 10:15 a.m. data check-in will result in your salary decrease of $42.18 in the next pay period.
Reminder: So far in this pay period student output measurement has reduced your salary by $624.16.
Reminder: This information is confidential and sharing of this information with colleagues, lawyers, or the media results in immediate dismissal.
We thank you for using student data to incentivize your work and helping the district reward excellent teachers over those needing improvement.
We wish you well in our common endeavor to leave no child behind.
— Susan Ohanian
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