Me brudder is an engineer who got tired of being squeezed by low-quality, cheap Asian competition. He’s in a crash program at what was once a State Teacher’s College, and is now a State College. He tells me that most of the “How to Teach” classes are basically about trying to understand little Jimmy/Juan/JaMille’s background and deprivations and about trying to manipulate evaluations into soft-scored group efforts that will protect those who wouldn’t otherwise pass, so that the “No Child” tax money will keep coming in.
Sorry to break it to both of you, but the "No Child tax money" is based on standardized test scores, not class grades...and those individual, not group, efforts.