Conversations with Obama, Duncan on assessment
This was written by Carol Corbett Burris (cburris@rvcschools.org), principal of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, N.Y., and Kevin G. Welner (kevin.welner@colorado.edu), director of the National Education Policy Center, and a professor of education policy, both at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In this article, first published in Kappan magazine, the authors write about their discussions — by letter and telephone — with President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan over the administration’s support for controversial evaluation systems for teachers and principals that are linked to how well students perform on standardized tests. This is longer than the average post, but worth your time.
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