Monday, April 12, 2010

Tying Teacher Evaluation to Student Achievement

April 7, 2010
Tying Teacher Evaluation to Student Achievement
Caution, Yellow Light Ahead
By Susan H. Fuhrman


The Obama administration, through its Race to the Top initiative, is encouraging states to develop approaches for evaluating teachers that incorporate student-achievement results. This aspect of the program has been controversial, prompting some teachers’ unions to refuse to endorse state applications for competitive federal grants. However, a number of efforts to develop such indices of teacher effectiveness are under way, and the American Federation of Teachers’ president, Randi Weingarten, has publicly endorsed including student-achievement results along with other measures to evaluate teacher success.

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