Category: Teacher Evaluation
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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
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Evaluating Teachers
A panel discussion on the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers