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The High Stakes of Teacher Evaluation

By Jack Schneider

Teacher behavior matters less than student learning. That’s the new mantra in education reform.

From coast to coast, classroom observations are being replaced by student achievement scores as

the coin of the realm in teacher evaluation. In many states, 50 percent of teacher effectiveness

ratings are now determined by such data, and if the trend continues that number will only grow.

It won’t be…

You know who you are. You think the most wonderful thing in the world is when kids learn lots and lots of stuff.

But you also know that the whole trend of K-12 education is toward kids learning attitudes, competencies, rhetorical skills, and all kinds of things that are not at all the same as learning what happened in 1492. You think this is sad.

An education without facts is, for many of us, a fraud.

And the irony is that with all the new…

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Aligning Educational Policy and Curricula with Employer Expectations

May 1, 2014

Millions remain unemployed as the nation’s economy recovers all too slowly from the recession of 2008.

A common explanation for this state of affairs in the media and policymaking circles focuses on the “skills gap” which is a structural mismatch between the supply of workers with particular skill sets and employers’ demands for qualified workers. Instead of studying…