John Merrow is a tough and fair-minded reporter. In this report, which aired tonight (Friday), teachers’ unions come out looking not so enlightened.
Popularity: 19% [?]
PBS examines unions and Race to the Top
Posted by Alan Gottlieb Mar 26th, 2010.
Tying teacher evaluations to student achievement (test scores) is fallacious because it fails to account for the wide variance in student abilities and backgrounds. Many such “reforms” appear to based upon opinion rather than imperical research.