| What the 2014 Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll says about what the public thinks about teachers. The big news is the dramatic shift in public opinion from favoring to opposing the use of standardized test scores to evaluate teachers. Only 1% was undecided on this question.Those favoring such a policy dropped from 61% to 38%. The public, if this poll is right, understands that value-added measurement is not working and is hurting the teachers in their community's public schools.Only 38% of Americans favor using student performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers, The bad news for Teach for America is that the public wants well-prepared, highly-trained teachers in their schools, not inexperienced young college graduates who have not passed through rigorous preparation and screening...read more about what our citizens really think... |
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