Category: Teacher Quality
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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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Education Schools: Deja Vu All Over Again
The crisis in teacher education, circa 1981.
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Evaluating Teachers
A panel discussion on the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers
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Rhee Engineering Education
Has D.C.’s radical experiment in school reform really worked? A review of The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District, by Richard Whitmire
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How Public School Teaching Got Cool
Teach for America’s 20th anniversary bash in Washington, DC, proved that public education is increasingly a destination for the best-and-brightest.
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Five Myths About Teacher Merit Pay
Originally appeared in The Washington Post. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says paying public school teachers based on their performance is his “highest priority,” and he plans to dole out hundreds of millions of dollars to states and school systems that embrace the idea. In the District, Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has made such reform a…
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The Key to Teacher Reform in the District of Columbia: Better Evaluations
Testimony before the DC City Council on Michelle Rhee’s controversial new teacher evaluation system
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Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Quality
Originally published in Voices in Urban Education with co-author Robert Rothman. The troubled state of teacher evaluation is a glaring and largely neglected problem in public education, one with consequences that extend far beyond the current debate over performance pay. Because teacher evaluations are at the center of the educational enterprise—the quality of teaching in the…