Tbh having been involved in the magnet school system I do think there's a considerable aspect of 'when you have already filtered for the top 5% academic achievers to even get in the door, how much good/bad are the teachers really doing when those kids have the homelife, educational infrastructure and genetics that put them in that box'.
Also what is 'good teaching'. The teacher who'd be able to say get a bunch of 120 IQ students who actually buy in/have significant cultural pressures towards education to maximize their possible SAT scores is likely a very different person and educator than whoever'd do the best in a test of being parachuted into a random 10th percentile school and achieving the best possible results with that population.
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Tbh having been involved in the magnet school system I do think there's a considerable aspect of 'when you have already filtered for the top 5% academic achievers to even get in the door, how much good/bad are the teachers really doing when those kids have the homelife, educational infrastructure and genetics that put them in that box'.
Also what is 'good teaching'. The teacher who'd be able to say get a bunch of 120 IQ students who actually buy in/have significant cultural pressures towards education to maximize their possible SAT scores is likely a very different person and educator than whoever'd do the best in a test of being parachuted into a random 10th percentile school and achieving the best possible results with that population.
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