The U.S. Department of Education should support ongoing research to establish the validity and reliability of comprehensive teacher evaluation programs, further examine the efficacy of value added models of teacher evaluation, and support adequate training and professional development of evaluators to
insure fidelity of implementation of evaluation models found to be effective in improving teaching and learning.
Elsewhere, students participating in the Kansas Reading Initiative — a two - year pilot blended - learning program that provides Lexia Learning's Lexia Reading Core5 at no cost to the participating schools so long as they meet and maintain minimum usage requirements, which cleverly
insures some
implementation fidelity — saw dramatic gains in the first year
of the initiative with roughly 20 % — or 225 —
of elementary schools in the state participating.