Teachers' Ratings Still High Despite New Measures

Changes to evaluation systems yield only subtle differences

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The figures are resoundingly familiar.

In Michigan, 98 percent of teachers were rated effective or betterRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader under new teacher-evaluation systems recently put in place. In Florida, 97 percent of teachers were deemed effective or betterRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader .

Principals in TennesseeRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader judged 98 percent of teachers to be "at expectations" or better last school year, while evaluators in GeorgiaRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader gave good reviews to 94 percent of teachers taking part in a pilot evaluation program.

Those results, among the first trickling out from states' newly revamped yardsticks, paint a picture of a K-12 system that remains hesitant to differentiate between the best and the weakest performers—as well as among all those in the middle doing a solid job who still have room to improve.

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