http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/creative--motivating-and-fired/... Another story of a teacher that people think is a good teacher yet poor test scores led to her dismissal. Why the disconnect between perception and scores? The article doesn't go into detail, but a lot of her students came from classrooms the year before that are now being investigated for cheating. If their prior scores were artificially raised, then her ability to show true growth was very limited.