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- 06-14-2011
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Guest blog by Diana Senechal/Washington Post
The upstart Gates-funded organization Educators 4 Excellence has just put forth a proposal for teacher evaluations in New York City. They would accord 25 percent of the evaluation to student value-added growth data; 15 percent to data from local assessments; 30 percent to administrator observations; 15 percent to independent outside observations; 10 percent to student surveys; and 5 percent to support from the community. The observations, they say, should follow a rubric. What sort of rubric should this be? The proposal states: Observations should focus on three main criteria: (more...)
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