The Obama Administration has repeatedly expressed support for merit pay and using student data to evaluate teachers.
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In many other states, including New Jersey, districts had the ability to unilaterally decide how they would evaluate teachers.
The database has sparked a national debate on how to evaluate teachers.
In places like New Haven, educators and city leaders have come together to find a smarter way to evaluate teachers and turn around low-performing schools.
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New York is one of dozens of states moving to adopt new evaluation systems, though there is no consensus on how best to evaluate teachers.
Those who oppose the gathering momentum to evaluate teachers based in significant part on student test scores argue that it will drive good teachers from the neediest schools.
Teachers at three Seattle schools are refusing to give students district-mandated standardized exams, one of the most dramatic moves in an escalating fight nationwide over using test scores to evaluate teachers and schools.
Second, we urged schools and school districts to make sure we have excellent principals leading our schools and great teachers leading our classes by promoting rigorous plans to develop and evaluate teachers and principals and by rewarding their success.
"For all the bluster, I think, in the end, my hope is that people would all come together and that we'll find a way to evaluate teachers, reward the best, give some help to those that aren't doing a great job, " he said during a brief radio appearance Friday morning.
Based on this small sampling of behaviors, raters were able to accurately predict how students would evaluate those same teachers at the end of the course.
The bottom line to the report is that policy discussions right now focus more on how to test students, what they should learn, how to make their schools better, and how to evaluate and improve teachers, instead of on the single biggest determiner of academic success: student motivation.
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For many years the educational establishment has used metrics like money spent per student or the number of teachers with advanced degrees to evaluate our K-12 schools.
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These teachers volunteered to have their classes videotaped and their lessons scored by experts, to have their students evaluate their teaching, to fill out surveys about the support they receive and to be assessed on their content knowledge.
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