It's critical to keep
bias out of the classroom, where no student deserves to be judged by his or her race, socioeconomic class, or gender.
We demonstrated that a regression - based statistical correction for the proportion of the students in each teacher's class that are English - language learners, have education disabilities, are from low - income families, and so forth, wrings most of
the bias out of classroom observations.
Not exact matches
Collectively, this disparity fuels what has been called the «school - to - prison - pipeline,» a systemic
bias that civil rights advocates say pushes children and young adults
of color
out of the
classroom and into the criminal justice system.
A skill, in contrast, refers to a person's ability to carry
out a particular activity successfully, e.g., giving effective forms
of feedback to others, staying on task in the
classroom, self - monitoring whether one's behavior is having the intended effect, engaging in timely and expected social routines, and engaging in anticipatory thinking about automatic behaviors and
biased beliefs that lead to trouble.
But in the districts we examined, only teachers at the very tail end
of the distribution are dismissed because
of their evaluation scores, and it turns
out that teachers who get the very worst evaluation scores remain at the tail end
of the distribution regardless
of whether their
classroom observation ratings are
biased.