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Responding to the Gates Foundation: 

How Do We Consider Evidence of Learning in Teacher Evaluations?

ANTHONY CODY

August 08, 2012

This post originally appears on Anthony Cody's blog, Living in Dialogue. It is the second post in a weekly series of posts, over five consecutive weeks, between teacherAnthony Cody, and various members of the US education team at the foundation. The first dialogue, between Cody and Irvin Scott, Deputy Director of the College Ready team at the foundation, is here.  

This post is the second round in a five-part exchange with the Gates Foundation. This is a response to yesterday'spost 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