Arne Duncan Supports Using Student Portfolios To Evaluate Teachers?
February 9, 2012 | 0 comments
I support using alternative methods to student performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers. In fact, I have a long list of “tried and true” alternatives at The Best Articles Describing Alternatives To High-Stakes Testing.
One of those alternative measures worth considering, I believe, are student portfolios.
Well, this week, Arne Duncan gave a speech where he endorsed that view:
Just last week I met with Dru Davison, a fantastic music teacher in Memphis. Arts teachers there were frustrated because they were being evaluated based solely on school-wide performance in math and English. So he convened a group of arts educators to come up with