Category: Teacher Unions
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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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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…
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Using Test Scores in Teacher Evaluations is Tricky
Using student test scores to evaluate teachers is harder than it seems
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Rush to Judgment: Teacher Evaluation in Public Education
Teacher evaluation is the missing link in the teacher reform movement