IMPACT: Does it favor younger teachers? - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post

IMPACT: Does it favor younger teachers? - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post:

IMPACT: Does it favor younger teachers?

by Bill Turque

I finally obtained some data from DCPS on the demographics underlying the 2010-11 IMPACT scores. It’s difficult to draw strong conclusions from a one-year snapshot of the 4,000 educators who were evaluated. But it appears that, at least through the prism of IMPACT, the best teachers improve quickly in their first few years on the job and then hit a kind of plateau.
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