Why Ohio should toss out teacher evaluation mandates
Over the past year, Ohio lawmakers have been mulling revisions to the state’s teacher evaluation policies.
Over the past year, Ohio lawmakers have been mulling revisions to the state’s teacher evaluation policies.
As teacher evaluation systems evolve around the nation—decreasing the importance of student growth scores in favor of more reliance on classroom observations—how best to support principals in observing and giving feedback on teacher performance will gain importance.
Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of talk about changing the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES).
For more than a decade, Ohio’s annual school report cards have offered the public information on school quality. The current iteration of report cards has notable strengths: School ratings are grounded in hard data, they use an intuitive A-F rating system, and several of the metrics encourage schools to pay attention to the achievement of all students.
Youngstown City School’s CEO Krish Mohip recently announced significant changes to how his district will evaluate its teachers.
It’s one of those perennial ideas in education reform that never seems to get across the finish line: raising the standards for who can teach in our schools.
Most American public school teachers are paid according to salary schedules that take into account their years of experience and degrees earned.
Nestled within the General Assembly’s final budget plan as sent to Governor Kasich on June 28 was an under-the-radar provision that would have eliminated Ohio’s teacher residency program. This didn’t get a lot of coverage.
The New Teacher Center (NTC) is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve student learning via supports for beginning teachers.
In early June, State Superintendent DeMaria shared with the state school board his recommendations for stream
By Chester E. Finn, Jr.
For years, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has released reports that rate and compare hundreds of teacher preparation programs across the country.
Performance-based funding in the public sector has begun to take root in recent years, most prominently in higher education and in merit-pay plans for some teachers.
NOTE: This blog was first published in a slightly different form on The 74 on 5/12/17.
In March, Ohio’s Educator Standards Board (ESB) released six recommendations for revising the
Research on individualized, in-school tutoring such as Match Corps has demonstrated impressive results.
One of the big Ohio education stories of 2016 was the growing popularity of College Credit Plus (CCP), a program that provides students three ways to earn college credit from public or participating private
KIPP Columbus achieves extraordinary outcomes for its students, predominantly students in poverty and students of color. Led by Hannah Powell and a visionary board, the school has a rare knack for forging powerful partnerships at every turn—ones that strengthen KIPP students, their families, and the entire community near its campus.
On September 15, Ohio released report cards for approximately 600 school districts and 3,500 public schools (district and charter). These report cards are based on state exam results from the 2015-16 school year, along with several other gauges of student success.
Throughout the recent Olympic Games, I reflected on the parallels between elite-level athletics and gifted education, and I thought how much we could learn about developing exceptional ability from what we saw during those two weeks.
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