{"id":42213,"date":"2014-05-26T22:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T04:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/yes-effectiveness-evaluations-for-all.html"},"modified":"2014-05-26T22:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T04:06:54","slug":"yes-effectiveness-evaluations-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/yes-effectiveness-evaluations-for-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, effectiveness evaluations for all!"},"content":{"rendered":"
The biggest public policy meme of the past decade or two has been accountability for teachers. They need more objective measures of their effectiveness! They need regular evaluations! They need close monitoring to make sure they are doing their job!<\/p>\n

One wonders how many of those folks pushing this public policy would be willing to go through this kind of evaluation themselves.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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What Teacher Evaluation Looks Like in Practice<\/a>
\n Somehow, I think many of the commentators who routinely bash teachers would become violent if subjected to assessments like these in Palm Beach, FL (boldface mine): Five (or more) times in the scho…\n <\/p>\n

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The biggest public policy meme of the past decade or two has been accountability for teachers. They need more objective measures of their effectiveness! They need regular evaluations! They need close monitoring to make sure they are doing their job! One wonders how many of those folks pushing this public policy would be willing to … Continue reading “Yes, effectiveness evaluations for all!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130799,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/on-childhood-heroes-and-adult-re-evaluations.html","url_meta":{"origin":42213,"position":0},"title":"On Childhood Heroes and Adult Re-Evaluations","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 4-Jun-16 3:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's tough when you learn something that makes you question a beloved character or series of stories or other creative work. 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