Responding to NPR's What's At Stake for US Teachers
Responding to NPR
What's At Stake For U.S. Teachers
by Alan Greenblatt
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/13/161072479/whats-at-stake-for-u-s-teachers?ft=1
NPR’s article contained numerous errors. Here are two of them.
1. “Practically everyone in education agrees that the old system of monitoring teacher quality … is useless.”
I know of no study that shows this. The evidence indicates that American teachers are doing an excellent job, which suggests that there is no crisis in teacher evaluation: Our middle-class students score at or near the top of the world on standardized tests. Our overall unspectacular scores are due to our very high rate of poverty,
What's At Stake For U.S. Teachers
by Alan Greenblatt
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/13/161072479/whats-at-stake-for-u-s-teachers?ft=1
NPR’s article contained numerous errors. Here are two of them.
1. “Practically everyone in education agrees that the old system of monitoring teacher quality … is useless.”
I know of no study that shows this. The evidence indicates that American teachers are doing an excellent job, which suggests that there is no crisis in teacher evaluation: Our middle-class students score at or near the top of the world on standardized tests. Our overall unspectacular scores are due to our very high rate of poverty,