Merit Pay Follies in TN
One of my great commenters, jcg, clues us in on what's happening with merit pay in Tennessee:
First, understand that the evaluation system is NOT about improving education, it's about the drag on profits from human capital.
The state of TN paid millions to the Milkin family of Wall St fraud for their TAP/TEAM evaluations system that scores teachers on a 5 point rubric. The national trainers indoctrinated, I mean, trained all evaluators that a score of (3) is "rock solid". If there are "too many" high scores the trainer asserted that evaluators were gaming the evaluation tool.
TN Commissioner of Education, TfA grad Kevin Huffman bloviates to media outlets that