No Clear Teacher Narrative in Race to Top Phase Two Winners
The Phase 2 Race to the Top picks are here, and they're an interesting and eclectic bunch.
The effective teachers and leaders section of the competition represented the largest percentage of overall points in the competition, but based on a cursory review of the winners, there does not appear to be a clear thread among the teacher proposals that explains why some states won and others didn't.
A big theme has been incorporating student achievement into teacher evaluations. But despite the rumors, the idea of making student growth count for up to 50 percent of an evaluation does not seem to have been a major factor, after all. New York State officials, with union support, agreed to use 40 percent, of which only a portion
