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It does since there are (in NY at least) state tests to measure progress of the students and those results are never released to students or parents but used in
by matt_s 11y ago
It does since there are (in NY at least) state tests to measure progress of the students and those results are never released to students or parents but used in "grading" teachers.
It seems very closely tied with the Common Core rollout. I get that employers (state governments) want to measure teacher performance but how do you do that realistically? Will it change anything if a teacher has poor performance? They are under union contracts these days anyhow and some are tenured.
- dragonwriter 11y agoState tests to grade schools are an accountability measure from NCLB. Most likely, tests to grade teachers are driven by that. Common core adoption may also be driven by the results of NCLB driven tests, if it's percieved as more effective in bringing the bottom up as NCLB focuses on. But I don't see a casual relationship from Common Core to teacher-grading tests. Where's the link, beyond a temporal association.
- matt_s 11y agoAll of the grading teachers tests started with Common Core, here in NY state at least which was an early adopter. Each state is probably implementing it differently. These aren't tests to grade schools, these are testing the kids against Common Core curriculum that they haven't been taught yet to grade teachers on how they are doing. It has nothing to do with NCLB. There is direct linkage to Common Core curriculum and rollout. I have teachers in my family and kids in the schools that this is happening in, do you actually have kids in school?