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For teachers tired of schools obsessed with state testing requirements and whipsawed by policy directives governing everything from discipline to teacher evaluation, private schools can offer a respite and the chance to craft measures tailored to their realities and needs.

At the same time, they're wrong to imagine that changing policies regarding teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, or school choice will deliver as hoped, absent efforts to help school officials to think differently and then provide the support they need to tackle rules, regulations, and contracts in new ways.

Lead author of Rhetoric vs. Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools, he has published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Behavioral Science and Policy, Statistics and Public Policy, the Journal of Labor Economics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, American Journal of Education, Teachers College Record, Peabody Journal of Education, Education Next, the Handbook of Research on School Choice, and the Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance.

There was clear agreement that policy makers need to respond to complaints from teachers and parents about too much testing, about accountability systems that misidentify schools as being either excellent or in need of intervention, and about state - mandated teacher evaluation systems that have consumed policy attention and controversy for little payoff in student achievement.

Federal law in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that include, in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.

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Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of Educators 4 Excellence - NY, which aims to elevate teachers» voices in policy debates, said the new evaluation system had sparked conversations on technique, but principals need more training in executing it.

Former Washington DC schools superintendent Michelle Rhee credits LAUSD and UTLA for making progress with their tentative teacher evaluation deal but describes it as» falling short in many ways» and cites it as an example of the need for a «strong statewide policy governing teachers» performance evaluations.»

Evan shares with Dr. Rod Berger insights on teacher evaluation, teacher preparation, and the need for teacher voice in education policy conversations (Core of...

The report has three sections: 1) Setting the Context, which discusses the need for effective systems of evaluation and support for school leaders; 2) Sharing Key Lessons Learned, which highlights how states and districts can work together to agree upon and communicate expectations for school leaders and implement standards - based systems of leadership support and evaluation, thereby increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student outcomes in all schools across the nation; and 3) Improving Standards Based Leadership Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective evaluation and support for school leaders; 2) Sharing Key Lessons Learned, which highlights how states and districts can work together to agree upon and communicate expectations for school leaders and implement standards - based systems of leadership support and evaluation, thereby increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student outcomes in all schools across the nation; and 3) Improving Standards Based Leadership Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective evaluation, thereby increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student outcomes in all schools across the nation; and 3) Improving Standards Based Leadership Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective educators.

We will support evidence - based policy reforms aimed at ensuring principals have the autonomy and data they need to lead schools with strong cultures focused on improving teaching and learning, and that they are trained to use teacher evaluations to deliver high - quality observations and feedback.

«There's quite a bit of momentum around these issues of evaluation and issues of how you identify and support teachers who aren't as effective as they need to be,» said Cynthia Brown, Vice President of Education Policy at the Center for American Progress.

Under new state and federal policies, most high - need schools we work with at the Community Training and Assistance Center are implementing more rigorous approaches to teacher support and evaluation.

Federal and state policies such as the US Department of Education's Race to the Top state grant competition and Illinois» Performance Evaluation Act of 2010, which prioritize building effective principal and teacher evaluations systems to improve student achievement outcomes, have ratcheted up the need for data - driven teacher evaluation inEvaluation Act of 2010, which prioritize building effective principal and teacher evaluations systems to improve student achievement outcomes, have ratcheted up the need for data - driven teacher evaluation inevaluation in Illinois.

«I think you need to wake up the university presidents to the fact that schools of education can't be A.T.M.s for the rest of the college or university,» said Charles Barone, policy director for Democrats for Education Reform, a group that pushes for test - based teacher evaluations and has battled teachers» unions.