What the election means for teacher policy

11-08-2010

Blog by Stephen Sawchuk/Education Week

You've heard all of the back-and-forth on this blog about "teacher effectiveness," the Race to the Top, and performance-based compensation. What happens to those ideas, which have been heavily pushed by the Democratic administration, now that the House of Representatives and many state legislatures have turned Republican?
I've heard from a number of folks that there's room for bipartisan work on teacher effectiveness policies and support for performance pay. That is probably true in a theoretical sense, but there are practical issues that could definitely get in the way. One of the Obama administration's proposals has been to make Title I grants for disadvantaged students contingent on states' establishment of systems for measuring teacher effectiveness. But the idea of even more strings attached to these funds may not fly with a Congress chock-full of supporters of less federal involvement in education. (more…)

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