What my evaluation must include

09-19-2010

Guest blog by David B. Cohen/Washington Post

Dear California Education Policy Leader: As the new school year begins, students and their families always deal with changes: New schools, new classes and teachers, and a whole array of questions about what the new year holds in store. More than in most years, teachers find themselves uncertain about what to expect, in part due to the swelling general and political interest in teacher evaluation. Most of us would welcome improved teacher evaluations that actually help us do our jobs better; our fear is that politics and expediency will lead us towards the misuse of state test scores in teacher evaluation. Even the advocates of so-called "value-added" measurements concede the existence of variables known and unknown, and offer up various attempts to control for those factors. (more…)

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