• Schools Dropping 413 From Staff – NYTimes.com

  tags: NYTimes.com schools teacher evaluation teachers

  • The District of Columbia public schools has sent termination notices to 413 teachers and other school employees, including 288 for poor performance, under an evaluation system that has become a national model. District officials said that 113 of the employees had been rated ineffective, and that an additional 175 had been rated minimally effective for a second consecutive year in a system that emphasizes students’ performance on standardized tests as well as on classroom observations.

• Student-Teacher Programs Called Flawed – NYTimes.com

  tags: NYTimes.com pre-service teaching teachers

  • The National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, is to issue a study on Thursday reporting that most student-teaching programs are seriously flawed.
  • Many of the nation’s 1,400 education schools have taken issue with the council’s ranking project.

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