"It's not any different from what we knew back in February, " says Eric Holmboe , a vice president for evaluation research at the American Board of Internal Medicine who served on the Food and Drug Administration panel that looked at the risks of common pain drugs.
The United Federation of Teachers also asked a state labor board to intervene in a standoff with the city over a teacher-evaluation system at most of those schools, though the city said the board had no right to weigh in on the matter.
For all the difficulty of doing a rigorous evaluation in order to improve teaching performance across the board, I suspect it is a whole lot easier to identify the worst teachers in the school.
There is growing demand for boards to undergo a formal evaluation process, to assess both the performance of each individual board member and how they work together as a group.
The external auditor is hired by the independent Audit Committee of the Board of Directors on behalf of the shareholders to present an unbiased and independent evaluation of the fair presentation of financial information by management.
Teachers seeking "board certification" in their specialty must clear a number of hurdles, from subject matter tests to evaluation of classroom performances.