Testing of teachers, with pay linked to results, has been introduced.
Bennett (who is now a radio and television commentator), advocated the testing of teachers (and now favors comparative evaluations).
There is now some testing of teachers, but apparently no consequences for the many who fail those tests.
And Mr. Lazio said he would encourage the federal government to make some financing to states contingent on the testing of teachers for competency every five years.
The teachers from the radical National Coordinator of Education Workers, or CNTE, are opposed to the mandatory testing of teachers as part of Mexico's education reform and are also protesting the arrest of union leaders on money laundering and other charges.
This research collects and analyzes quantitative data, including the pre-test and post-test of teachers' knowledge and perspectives on assessment.
The program also seemed to improve teaching quality – as measured by classroom observations and test scores – of teachers with both strong and weak evaluation scores.
Mrs. Clinton noted her advocacy of higher standards, in the form of testing, for teachers and students in Arkansas in the 1980's, when she led a panel on education set up by Bill Clinton, who was then governor.
The data were collected during 6 months through observation, interviews, and test to teachers and students of Junior High Schools in Central Java.
In between tests, teams of teachers designed short lessons meant to target the lowest scoring skills and administered short assessments (often only one question) that we could analyze and return to students the next day.
"Given the high-stakes nature of the testing for teachers and school leaders, if the integrity of the tests cannot be guaranteed then it is absolutely clear that they cannot be used to judge the performance of schools," he said.
