Déjà vu on turnarounds
The feds are spending $3.5 billion in School Improvement Grants to “turnaround” the bottom 5 percent of schools. But we’ve tried this before with no success, writes Rick Hess, who warns, We’re not...
View ArticleIf you can’t fire a child molester …
California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that was supposed to make it easier to fire teachers charged with molesting students. It would “create new problems,” Brown said in his veto message. The...
View ArticleStudy: Evaluation works in DC
The District of Columbia’s teacher evaluation system — with rewards for the best and firing for the worst — is working, according to a a new study. “Teachers on the cusp of dismissal under D.C.’s...
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Evaluation isn’t about firing bad teachers
Nearly all teachers receive high ratings in most districts. Teachers are in short supply in some parts of the country, writes Paul Bruno for the Brookings Institution.“The extent to which a principal...
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Why bad teachers rarely get fired
In 25 diverse districts across the country, it’s very, very hard to fire a bad teacher concludes Undue Process, a new Fordham report by David Griffith and Victoria McDouglald. “Across the country, most...
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