Nineteen NY Legislators Protest Unproven and Damaging Teacher Evaluation Scheme
A clip from a post at Ed in the Apple:
. . . The testing system is deeply flawed.
. . . The testing system is deeply flawed.
“Testing and education experts have expressed serious concerns about the validity of the model, pointing to the inability of this methodology to identify the most effective teachers. As an Economic Policy Institute briefing paper mentions, one study found that across five large urban districts, among teachers rated in the top 20% of effectiveness in the first year, less than a third were in the highest rated group the following year, and another third moved all the way down to the bottom 40%.”
Nineteen legislators signed a letter to Governor Cuomo asking that he support legislation to turn the Principal/Teacher Evaluation law into a 3-year pilot program:
The unintended consequences of this model extend beyond the teaching profession. This model creates