Experienced principals in NY call out the scant research validity and dubious invent-as-you-go design of the teacher evaluation system the state signed onto as a winner of RTTT funds. Even more nerve-wracking when you consider 20-40% of teacher evaluations are based on these student test scores. Said one principal: “I have a Ph.D., I’m in a school every day, and some consultant is supposed to be teaching me to do evaluations,” she said. “It takes your breath away it’s so awful.”
Principals Protest Increased Use of Test Scores to Evaluate Educators
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More than 650 school leaders from around New York State had signed a letter with complaints, most of them from Long Island, where the movement began. …”Mr. Kaplan, who runs one of the highest-achieving schools in the state, has been evaluating teachers since the education commissioner was a teenag…
