Responding to the Gates Foundation: How do we Consider Evidence of Learning in Teacher Evaluations? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Responding to the Gates Foundation: How do we Consider Evidence of Learning in Teacher Evaluations? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher:

Responding to the Gates Foundation: How do we Consider Evidence of Learning in Teacher Evaluations?

by Anthony Cody

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This post is the second round in a five-part exchange with the Gates Foundation. This is a response to yesterday's post from Vicki Phillips, How do we Consider Evidence of Student Learning in Teacher Evaluations?
Vicki Phillips opens her post with a complaint:

Education debates are often characterized wrongly as two warring camps: blame teachers for everything that's not working in our schools or defend all teachers at all costs.

This handwringing is hard to take seriously, because, as I wrote more than two years ago, there has indeed been a war on the teaching profession, and the Gates Foundation continues to arm one side very heavily.
The Gates Foundation continues to fund Teach For America, Stand For Children, The Media Bullpen, the