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Ed Sec Arne Duncan says use more than test scores to eval teachers
Oddly, what he says here is roughly what happened before corporate education reform and NCLB.
I wonder if this is meant as a sop to teachers to kill any demands for policy change before the election, and then they can go back to teacher bashing after the election.
Mr. Starr said he believed that education reform should focus on incentives to help teachers collaborate and help students learn skills that could not simply be measured by tests.
It is another example to me of how were not focused on the right things in the American education conversation today, Mr. Starr said. I have a lot of respect for Arne Duncan, he added, referring to the secretary of education, but its just sort of moving around the chairs on the Titanic.
Mr. Duncan, in a telephone interview on Thursday, said states that had received waivers, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, would also use a mix of other indicators to evaluate teachers and schools, like how many students actually enrolled in college or took Advanced Placement exams, as well as reviews of teachers by their peers, their students and their principals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/education/no-child-left-behind-whittled-down-under-obama.html?pagewanted=all
It is another example to me of how were not focused on the right things in the American education conversation today, Mr. Starr said. I have a lot of respect for Arne Duncan, he added, referring to the secretary of education, but its just sort of moving around the chairs on the Titanic.
Mr. Duncan, in a telephone interview on Thursday, said states that had received waivers, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, would also use a mix of other indicators to evaluate teachers and schools, like how many students actually enrolled in college or took Advanced Placement exams, as well as reviews of teachers by their peers, their students and their principals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/education/no-child-left-behind-whittled-down-under-obama.html?pagewanted=all
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Ed Sec Arne Duncan says use more than test scores to eval teachers (Original Post)
yurbud
Jul 2012
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elleng
(131,107 posts)1. OMG, just imagine!
use a mix of other indicators to evaluate teachers and schools, like how many students actually enrolled in college or took Advanced Placement exams!!!
yurbud
(39,405 posts)2. and those are as much measures of the community as the teachers
It DOES take a village, so one of the problems for U.S. public education over the years has been the way it is financed, largely through property taxes, which directly reflect the wealth, or lack thereof, of the community at issue.
msongs
(67,441 posts)4. yeah Arne, evaluate them based on union membership and willingness to work for less and less nt
yurbud
(39,405 posts)5. that's probably still the bottom line that makes this seem like a token bone thrown to muddy the
waters, which is my first mixed metaphor of the day.