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What research really says on teacher evaluation - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

What research really says on teacher evaluation - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


What research really says on teacher evaluation

The Chicago teachers strike has put the issue of teacher evaluation front and center in the education debate. The popular “value added” method of using student standardized test scores to figure out how effective a teacher is highly controversial; I wrote about it here. Here is a new important look by an education expert, Richard Rothstein.
Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit organization created to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. He was the national education columnist of The New York