The goal was to impose standardized evaluations aimed at removing bad teachers from the classroom, and to end tenure laws that all but guaranteed job security. (politico.com)
Some policymakers, though, focused more closely on the prospect of identifying and removing bad teachers quickly and efficiently. (edweek.org)
Evidence like this has left some education reformers worried that they have talked too much about removing bad teachers from the classroom and not enough about respecting the good ones and keeping them there. (thenation.com)