Developing system to rate teachers proves challenging
Las Vegas Review Journal Thursday 10th May, 2012
Creating an objective system for evaluating Nevada teachers has proven to be a "gargantuan challenge" because 70 percent of teachers don't administer standardized tests to their students."This isn't as straightforward as we thought," said Pamela Salazar, chairwoman of the Teachers and Leaders Council of Nevada, which the state Legislature created in 2011 to develop the first-ever statewide system for evaluating performance of public school teache...
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