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Seven teachers sue HISD over controversial evaluation system

Seven teachers sue HISD over controversial evaluation system

Seven district teachers and the Houston Federation of Teachers have sued the Houston Independent School District in Federal District Court, charging that the district inappropriately uses standardized test scores in teacher evaluations. The lawsuit has national implications as federal education policy encourages districts to increase their use of standardized evaluations.Read More

Evaluations: boon or burden?

Evaluations: boon or burden?

National K-12, Recommendations December 23, 2013 at 4:15 pm

Recently, major national news sources covered topics which Thesis has been following for some time now: teacher evaluations and national standardized testing norms.  First, on December 18th,  Al Jazeera America drew its readership’s attention to how schools all over the country have had to postpone (or even sacrifice) designing andRead More