Evaluating Teachers with Classroom Observations

1 Evaluating Teachers with Classroom Observations Lessons Learned in Four DistrictsGrover J. (Russ) Whitehurst, Matthew M. Chingos, andKatharine M. LindquistReutersMay 2014 Evaluating Teachers with Classroom Observations - Lessons Learned in Four Districts 2 Executive Summary The evidence is clear: better Teachers improve student outcomes, ranging from test scores to college attendance rates to career earnings. Federal policy has begun to catch up with these findings in its recent shift from an effort to ensure that all Teachers have traditional credentials to policies intended to incentivize states to evaluate and retain Teachers based on their Classroom performance.

requiring the adoption of teacher evaluation systems that incorporate student achievement data, but as of the 2012-2013 school year, only eight states and the District of Columbia had fully ...

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