However, to evaluate a teacher's
performance over an entire school year based on how kids perform on a series of grueling, stressful exams crammed into a couple days has always been a terrible idea.
Just two months ago, we announced, in collaboration with the NYC Department of Education, a revised teacher evaluation system that considers the work students and teachers
do over the entire school year.
What would Lemov, a man who calculates the amount of teaching time lost to handing out papers and extrapolates that into hours of teaching time
lost over an entire school year, make of a teacher who spends hours at a student's home waiting for a parent to return from work?
They would not receive the money until February, however, meaning that the increase would amount to about 2 percent when spread out
over the entire school year.