Good Grief! Teachers Get High Marks on New Evaluations

[proud2BlibKansan]

This is an unintentionally hilarious story in the New York Times.

Reformers are upset to discover that an astonishing proportion of teachers are getting high marks on the new evaluation systems that have just been set up. The evaluations were supposed to identify the best teachers (to get bonuses, even if no one has any money for bonuses) and most importantly to weed out the “bad” teachers who were causing so many students to get low test scores.

But look at these shocking statistics:

In Florida, 97 percent of teachers were deemed effective or highly effective in the most recent evaluations. In Tennessee, 98 percent of teachers were judged to be “at expectations.”

In Michigan, 98 percent of teachers were rated effective or better.

Advocates of education reform concede that such rosy numbers, after many millions of dollars developing the new systems and thousands of hours of training, are worrisome.

more ...http://dianeravitch.net/2013/03/31/good-grief-teachers-get-high-marks-on-new-evaluations/

[ChazInAz]

1. It's a Darwinian thing.

The teachers who survived the crap being hurled at them were the toughest and the very best.
Thus have the creationists and the anti-education thugs been hoist on their own petard.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. +1