Not exact matches
Background: Chad Aldeman is a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, where he has worked on the
Policy and Thought Leadership team since 2012, advising clients and
writing on
teacher preparation,
teacher evaluation, and college and career readiness.
Author Bio: Chad Aldeman is a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, where he has worked on the
Policy and Thought Leadership team since 2012, advising clients and
writing on
teacher preparation,
teacher evaluation, and college - and career - readiness.
The organization works with ALEC to
write and promote education reform
policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to
teacher evaluations, weakening
teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.
As I
wrote into a recent post: ``... it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former [
teacher evaluation reform
policies and] efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability.»
She
writes in that letter about the test - based
evaluation of
teachers and principals, a
policy that's received increasing national attention from
policy makers.
«If Washington, D.C., went to one extreme,» Barnum
writes, «in focusing on test - driven accountability
policies, as some argue, California has gone to the other: placing a lengthy pause on school accountability, devolving control to local districts, eliminating certain data systems and declining to tie
teacher evaluations to student test scores.»
«The NEA
policy statement was
written by and for
teachers and takes into account the evidence - based research on
teacher evaluation,» Van Roekel says.
In 2012, we joined with the California State PTA, the California School Boards Association, education reform, and civil rights organizations to oppose AB5, which, as
written, would have significantly weakened California state
policies regarding
teacher evaluation.
Chad Aldeman is a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, where he has worked on the
Policy and Thought Leadership team since 2012, advising clients and
writing on
teacher preparation,
teacher evaluation, and college and career readiness.