RTT and the problem with trying to do too many things at once
Blog by Sara Mead/Education Week
An awful lot of ink's been spilled on RTT in the past week. But I think the abundant commentary is missing an important point: RTT's diffuse focus--across four reform priorities, with multiple different criteria within each of those priorities and additional criteria outside those priorities, too--and how those multiple competing priorities affected the outcomes. Press reports have tended to focus on RTT's support for teacher performance evaluations and charter schools--but those two issues together account for barely 20% of the total available RTT points. (more…)