Standardized tests should rank students by percentile and rate teachers in teams, according to a new policy brief by Derek Neal, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, the Huffington Post reports.
“I’m very opposed to ever using this [data] to give individual scores for teachers,” said Neal, speaking at a Tuesday conference hosted by the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project…
Latest posts by staff and wire services reports (see all)
- ‘Buyer’s remorse’ dogging Common Core rollout - October 30, 2014
- Calif. law targets social media monitoring of students - October 2, 2014
- Elementary world language instruction - September 25, 2014