Wednesday, September 29, 2010 This week, NBC News launched “Education Nation” in an attempt to engage the public in thoughtful dialogue about how to provide every American with an opportunity to have the “best education in the world.” The discussion focuses on many important aspects of the American education system, including dismal dropout rates, poor …
Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems | Brookings Institution. U.S. public schools are in the early stages of a revolution in how they go about evaluating teachers. In years past there was little more than intuition and anecdote to support the view that teachers vary in their quality. The little data that was available came …
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There is also widespread agreement that the nation needs to increase the level of academic achievement of its students and address large achievement gaps between children from more and less advantaged families. Thus, it is imperative that we enhance the overall quality of the teacher workforce and enact policies that increase the opportunities for children …
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan put it, “Today in our country, 99 percent of our teachers are above average.” he evaluation of teachers based on the contribution they make to the learning of their students, value-added, is an increasingly popular but controversial education reform policy. We highlight and try to clarify four areas of confusion …
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.The U.S. Department of Education’s “National Educational Technology Plan” sets forward the goal of using technology “to provide engaging and powerful learning experiences, content, and resources and assessments that measure student assessment in more complete, authentic, and meaningful ways.”12 It points out that “technology-based learning and assessment systems will be pivotal in improving student learning …
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