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Why I’m afraid the Gates Foundation might be minimizing great tools for helping teachers improve their craft
- 12-12-2010
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Blog by Larry Ferlazzo/Edublog.org
I support developing more effective ways to evaluate teachers — using multiple measures. What I don’t support, however, is the present effort by the Gates Foundation that’s spending millions of dollars using student scores on standardized tests as THE MEASURE used to evaluate teachers. I have no objection to scores from existing standardized tests being a part — a small part — of those multiple measures. If present efforts to create a “new generation” of state assessments actually invite teachers to work with them and develop more accurate performance-based assessments, I would have no objection to their proportional weight being increased — a little. Accomplished California Teachers (of which I am a member) published a report earlier this year that I think accurately reflects my thinking on teacher evaluation: (more…)
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