Over the last decade, the federal government has invested billions into implementing new, high-stakes teacher evaluations nationwide.
The experts studying the impacts of these hopeful reforms have come to a few disappointing conclusions.
Intended to lead to more effective feedback, better instruction, and improved student outcomes, compliance-driven evaluation systems have shown to be ineffective at best and detrimental to the teaching profession at worst.
Competency-based teacher evaluations that focus on individual growth over time, on the other hand, lead to vastly different results.
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First published October 23, 2023.