Grade Inflation Seen in Evaluations of Teachers, Regardless of System
Few parents, principals, or even teachers themselves agree that all teachers are equally effective at helping children learn. Yet formal teacher evaluations tell a different story, one that looks a bit like something out of Lake Wobegon.
In many districts, nearly all tenured teachers—like the children in author Garrison Keillor’s fictional town—are deemed above average, concludes a report issued last week .
Conducted by the New Teacher Project, a New York City-based teacher-training organization, the report analyzes the results of a survey of more than 15,000 teachers and 1,300 administrators across four states and 12 districts. It also incorporates records maintained by those districts’ human-resources departments. The records show that more than nine in 10 tenured teachers met local standards...
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