Georgia professors blast teacher evaluation system - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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Georgia professors blast teacher evaluation system

By Valerie Strauss

First it happened in New York, then Illinois and now Georgia.

Professors from colleges and universities in Georgia have written anopen letter to the governor, Nathan Deal, and other officials involved with education policy to express opposition to a new teacher evaluation system that depends largely on student standardized test scores.

“Value-added” assessment has become all the rage in teacher and principal evaluation across the country, even though assessment experts have repeatedly warned against using test scores for this 

Before ‘Fifty Shades of Grey:’ Bestsellers of last century

by Valerie Strauss

If you are done reading (or never would touch) the erotic “Fifty Shades of Grey” and looking for something a little, well, different to pick up this summer, here are some book lists that you might not have come across: Bestsellers from the past — way in the past.
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