This is part of a series from education blogger Laura Waters of NJ Left Behind. One of the most contentious issues surrounding education reform is whether or not one can measure teacher effectiveness ...

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“Teaching to the test” is an oft-repeated phrase these days. We discuss it a great deal in education because A) we’re doing it more than ever and B) everyone knows we’re not supposed to. Testing ...

For example, one plaintiff was a first-grade teacher evaluated based on the third-grade test scores of students she herself never taught. Another was a high school math teacher who mostly taught ...

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Hatched by economists, bureaucrats and politicians, the theory, back in the dawn Race To The Top era, was this: We would adopt standards nationally (Common Core) and then test those nationally ...

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Teachers from New York and California who apply to teach in Oklahoma will now have to answer questions meant to screen out “woke indoctrinators” with left-wing views — the latest attempt by Oklahoma ...