Sentences with phrase «to judge teacher performance»

Now he's reportedly set to give up — abandoning the effort to use student scores on state tests to help judge teacher performance.

The Student Success Act, adopted in 2011, established a value - added formula for judging teacher performance and relies on student test scores from statewide assessments as the primary measure.

According to a review by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington, D.C. - based reform group, 20 states in 2012 required student achievement as a significant part of judging teacher performance, including multiple states where student data accounts for 50 percent of an evaluation.

Obama called for the abolition of «firewall» rules, which prevent many schools from judging teacher performance based on student performance.

The NY Post says the teachers union «broke» the governor, thanks to reports that he plans to abandon the effort to use student scores on state tests to help judge teacher performance.

Instead of tormenting teachers with shoddy evaluations, many California school principals are resisting the policy of using standardized test scores to judge teacher performance.

Obama came to Wisconsin a day before state lawmakers here planned to vote to lift a ban on using student test scores to judge teacher performance.

Commissioner McQueen seems unfazed by logic, however, and insists we can plow right ahead with these scores and use them to judge teacher performance, and even include them in student grades if a district chooses.