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A D.C. teacher’s troubled experience with IMPACT
- 06-22-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
This is a statement that Laura Fuchs, a social studies teacher at H.D. Woodson Senior High School in Washington D.C., recently delivered to D.C. Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s Teachers Cabinet about Fuchs’ experiences with the IMPACT teacher evaluation system. IMPACT was instituted during the tenure of former chancellor Michelle Rhee. It is now headed by Jason Kamras, chief of Human Capital for the D.C. public schools. IMPACT is actually a collection of some 20 different evaluation systems for teachers in different capacities and other school personnel. Some teachers are evaluated by the standardized test scores of their students and by observations of their teaching. (more...)
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