History of IDEA
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Charters experiment with evaluations
- 10-24-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
With $60 million over seven years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, four charter school organizations in California are carrying out a teacher evaluation system that bears watching. Their collaboration is known as The College Ready Promise. The evaluation process they’ve created after a year of piloting will combine detailed, intensive classroom observations with student test scores and questionnaires of parents, students, and other teachers. Teachers have been included in developing the observation rubric and the rules, and appear receptive, if not enthusiastic, even though important aspects are still being developed: how the evaluations will be used to determine pay and advancement, and how teachers whose students don’t take standardized tests will be measured. (more...)
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