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Two principals split on teacher assessments
- 08-04-2011
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Blog by Jay Mathews/Washington Post
Last March, I quoted at length an anonymous D.C. principal who thought that the city’s new teacher evaluation system was making her less effective. At my request, D.C. officials put me in touch with another principal, Carolyne Albert-Garvey of Maury Elementary School in Northeast Washington, who says the new system works well for her. It is important to discern why two hard-working administrators have such different views. The IMPACT system of requiring five observations of each teacher each year by school administrators and outside experts, plus test score data for teachers in some grades, is being closely watched nationally. Its success or failure will have a large effect. The two principals’ schools are different. (more...)
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