S04E09 · SCENE 28/43 · 34:09
Know Your Place · teacher's meeting
Teachers discuss test score manipulation

Teachers debate teaching to the test and juking stats for better scores.

34:09→36:08
in the episode · 1m 59s · S04E09

What happens

34:09–36:08

Teachers discuss the pressure to raise MSA scores by teaching test questions directly. One teacher compares it to juking stats in policing. Another argues it assesses the school, not the students.

Whereteacher's meeting
Driverteacher
Positionact2 · escalation
ThreadSchool and community

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34:20

Bunch of fucking clowns. Mm-hmm.

34:46

This year, the preferred term is ''Curriculum Alignment.''

35:20

to teaching language arts sample questions.

36:00

Wherever you go, there you are.

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34:42Teachers told to start curriculum alignment
35:49Teacher compares to juking stats in police

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B · Carcetti political transition
C · Bubbles informant deal

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