Sentences with phrase «specific teacher evaluation policies»

The federal government's most recent action — the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- continues to emphasize state teacher evaluation and tenure systems; however, it explicitly forbids the U.S. Secretary of Education to force states to set up specific teacher evaluation policies.

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Moreover, many other specific policies must be aligned and harmonized, including state curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, K - 12 and college assessment, K - 12 finance, professional development, teacher evaluation / preparation, preschool, and others (Fuhrman, 1993).

In 2012, education law professors Preston Green and Joseph Oluwole, and education finance professor Bruce Baker, published an article outlining specific legal and policy problems with VAM and teacher evaluations, focusing on due process challenges, equal protection challenges, and disparate impact firings.

He said the national policy moment that resulted in teacher evaluation laws and regulations stems from both the financial crisis and Race to the Top, a federal competition for grant money in exchange for the pursuit of specific education reforms.

Critics of policies pushed by the Obama administration and many state policymakers — such as adopting the Common Core, revamping teacher evaluation and expanding charter schools — may seize on the latest NAEP results, but researchers warn against using national test scores to judge specific policies, a practice sometimes called «misNAEPery.»