How to write an article about parenting
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This was written by Alfie Kohn, the author of 12 books about education and human behavior, including “The Schools Our Children Deserve,” “The Homework Myth,” and the newly published“Feel-Bad Education . . . And Other Contrarian Essays on Children & Schooling.” He lives (actually) in the Boston area and (virtually) atwww.alfiekohn.com.
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A D.C. teacher’s troubled experience with IMPACT
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.
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