Effective teachers are the key to student success. Yet school systems treat all teachers as interchangeable parts rather than evaluating them rigorously to identify whose’s effective and who isn’t. Today’s guests discuss the difficult challenge of building stronger evaluation systems.
Guests:
Daniel Weisberg: Vice president for policy at the New Teacher Project. He’s one of the authors of the report, “The Widget Effect.”
Lynn Nordgren: President, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers.
Thomas Toch: Co-director of Education Sector, an education think tank. He has studied and written about how teachers are evaluated.
Listen: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/22/midmorning1/