Feds Push Kansas to Revise Teacher Evaluation
Associated Press - Tue 07:42 PM 08/14/2012
Education officials say Kansas has until next spring to revise the way it evaluates teachers to factor in students' performance on standardized tests.
Education officials say Kansas has until next spring to revise the way it evaluates teachers to factor in students' performance on standardized tests.
The officials told State Board of Education members Tuesday that a commission of teachers and administrators will begin working on proposals next month. The commission's first report is expected in December.
Kansas was granted a waiver in June from key provisions of the No Child Left Behind law, which requires all students to be proficient in reading and math by 2014.
Federal officials are pushing Kansas to revise its teacher evaluation method so that they're judged partly by how well students do on standardized tests in reading and math.
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troy
Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:13 Report this comment
This is sad, "proficient in reading and math by 2014"! This should have been the goal all along. This should be achieved without government regulatio. Parents, the school board, and fellow teachers should police the failures and show them to the door. Unfortunately the NEA and the AFT make sure lousy teachers are rewarded along with the good ones. Tenure should be the benchmark for success, a high mark in ones carreer! Not simply successfully hanging around for 3 years. This is just another example of how unions are slowly destroying another part of America.
FamilyMan08
Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:26 Report this comment
The real problem is there are a lot of parents that have given up the right to be an active teacher in the life of their child. They leave it solely to the schools. One teacher cannot teach 26 students. Parents have to be involved.
troy
Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:44 Report this comment
Good point! I agree. 3 1/2 years ago a friends child came home from school, her teacher had a discussion with the students in class explaining that a man who had been in prison should not be able to run for president! I couldn't stand it! "What presidential candidate had been in prison" I asked. Well, John McCain was in prison, that's what our teacher told us. Oh My God! My blood boiled! How can a teacher do this? Are they so far left they don't care anymore? With the unions backing are they untouchable? This is an example of a teacher who should be shown to the door.
troy
Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:47 Report this comment
For those of you who are unaware: John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election. McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations.