ERIC Number: EJ943643
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Oct
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
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Conversations with Arne Duncan: Offering Advice on Educator Evaluations
Burris, Carol Corbett; Welner, Kevin G.
Phi Delta Kappan, v93 n2 p38-41 Oct 2011
The authors detail their summer long pointed discussion with the Obama Administration--via an exchange of letters and telephone conversations--over initiatives in New York and other states that tie the evaluations of teachers and principals to student performance on standardized tests. The authors assert such initiatives should await further testing before being deployed and wreaking potential damage on teacher careers and student learning. In the meanwhile, they say, policy leaders should employ and fund already proven methods.
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Evaluation, Job Performance, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Federal Regulation, Audits (Verification), Teacher Effectiveness, Change Strategies, Incentives, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Teaching Conditions
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York
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