Dr. Weast said a major failing of Race to the Top's teacher-evaluation system is that it is being imposed from above rather than being developed by the teachers and administrators who will use it.
Leena Krokfors, professor of teaching at Helsinki University, says: "The beef in the Finnish teacher training system is the time that students have to learn, and while politicians are happy for Finland to produce good teachers, that's OK".
The second teacher preparation system is under the management of the project for the PSMT, supported by IPST.
"The teacher evaluation system is ideologically driven and not ready for prime time..
His case, and those of others before him, raise troubling questions about whether the teacher investigation system is causing too much disruption at L.A. Unified schools.
But regardless of what Judge Cynthia Kern decides, it's safe to say that the current teacher-evaluation system is broken in most school districts nationwide -- and that value-added analysis is here to stay.
Like Ohio, Florida's revamped teacher-evaluation system is in part a byproduct of the education reform agenda pushed by the Obama administration, which is awarding states $4.3 billion through its Race to the Top grant program.
Florida's redesigned teacher evaluation system is part of the Obama Administration's education reform efforts through Race to the Top, a competitive program that gives states $4.3 billion to design new ways to assess teachers and connect student performance to teacher pay.
"Basically, it's signaling to principals that rather than working to support teachers, the school system is going to give you a way to try to get rid of teachers".
Although we no longer permit corporal punishment of students by teachers, our school system is allowed complete latitude to do the same intellectually to its best and brightest young students.
