...we bring you the New York Times, who, alas, it appears have already forgotten this article from February and this article from November on the enormous problems with new teacher evaluation systems that use student standardized test performance to how their teachers are perceived to be doing.
The Times' own reporting only scratches the surface, of course, as I've posted countless times before.
As Diane Ravitch points out this morning, this also gets it entirely backwards in terms of what actually motivates people, plus continues the fallacy that merit pay does anything.
It does not.
That one of our nation's "papers of record" would know so very little about teacher evaluation is not, unfortunately, surprising. It is saddening. It is also alarming that they would so freely opine about something, having done so little research.
Update: and the comments are priceless.
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