Category: Teacher Evaluation
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How to Retain Teacher Talent in the District of Columbia
FutureEd Director Thomas Toch presented written testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia on December 8, 2023, addressing principal and teacher retention in the District of Columbia public education sector.
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Disrupted: Public-education Reform in the Nation’s Capital
The District of Columbia Public Schools have undergone one of the most ambitious, most controversial, and most successful, school reform campaigns in the nation.
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How To Address Teacher Attrition
FutureEd Director Thomas Toch testified before the District of Columbia City Council on Dec. 4 about principal and teacher retention in the public schools in the nation’s capital.
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How D.C. Schools Are Revolutionizing Teaching
D.C.’s traditional public schools, once among the nation’s worst, have become magnets for some of America’s best educators.
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How Obama Got Schooled
Under pressure from right and left, the president signed away hard-won federal power over K-12 education and gutted his own reforms, even as they were working.
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A New Era in the Battle Over Teacher Evaluations
The Obama administration encouraged more robust ways of assessing which educators were doing a good job. Will its legacy last?
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Who Says Teacher Eval Reforms Aren’t Working?
D.C.’s evaluation system should make critics think twice before dismissing the importance of reforms to teacher evaluation.
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Gates on Teacher Evaluation
The final report of the Gates Foundation’s $45-million study of teacher evaluation make the case for a comprehensive approach to gauging teacher qualilty.
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What’s the Best Way to Evaluate Teachers?
How school systems should respond to demands for new teacher evaluation systems
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Waiving Good-bye to Accountability?
Federal policymakers need to give states incentives to raise standards, not lower them