Yesterday Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, gave a speech calling the process to remove teachers “glacial” and reiterating that student test scores should be a part of teacher evaluations. How did the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teacher’s union respond? Jay Matthews has it:
[The NEA's director of teacher quality] said the NEA is open to discussing experiments in teacher evaluation systems that incorporate student test data as long as the data offer “authentic measures of student learning and student growth” and complement other types of assessment.
But he said that the national union’s stance is that using state standardized test scores to make decisions regarding the effectiveness of teachers has yet to be proven effective. “We’re not going to embrace something for which there is so little evidence yet,” Eubanks said.
There you have it: the NEA won’t embrace experiments in proving something effective if that something hasn’t already been proven effective.
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