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Education > Teachers & Administrators Should teachers be held accountable for low student test scores?

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Teachers should be held accountable for low student test scores. But so should the students themselves, parents, politicians, and communities.

We know that many factors go into student achievement. Children whose parents use large vocabularies at home on average show better language skills than children of parents with limited vocabularies. Well-nourished children usually do better than poorly nourished children. Verbal abuse and physical violence at home are usually very detrimental. We cannot expect teachers to be able to turn every individual child into a high achiever when teachers ...

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