Sentences with phrase «over teacher evaluations because»

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If she could take one thing back, Dr. Tisch said, it would be having rolled out the standards and the teacher evaluation system at the same time, «because I think the debate over how to evaluate a teacher contaminated the more important work.»

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

The findings are important because of what they may contribute to the debate over changing how teacher evaluation is conducted, which has emerged as a hot - button political issue favored by the so - called education reform movement.

Over the summer, three states saw their waivers reclassified as «high risk» because they didn't implement new teacher evaluation systems on time.

The recent groundbreaking agreement over evaluations for educators in the Los Angeles school district is a major victory for the teachers union because it limits the use of a controversial — but increasingly widespread — measurement of teacher effectiveness.

No new results have been issued in over a year because state officials have been working to change the system to align it more closely to the state's comparatively new evaluation process for individual teachers.

Over the last four years in Pittsburgh, about 150 teachers have resigned or been dismissed because of the new evaluations, the most in the history of the district and about 7 percent of the teaching force total.

The value - added model is thought to bring objectivity to teacher evaluations, because it compares students to themselves over time and largely controls for influences outside teachers» control, such as poverty and parental involvement.

She also testified that the weight of the research shows using value - added methods for evaluating teachers is invalid due to the instability of results over time, and because they rely solely on student performance on tests that were not designed for teacher evaluation.