Ravitch: Teachers Should be Evaluated

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Of course, teachers should be evaluated. They should be evaluated by experienced principals and peers. No incompetent teacher should be allowed to remain in the classroom. Those who can’t teach and can’t improve should be fired. But the current frenzy of blaming teachers for low scores smacks of a witch-hunt, the search for a scapegoat, someone to blame for a faltering economy, for the growing levels of poverty, for widening income inequality.

 

 The New York Review of Books

No Student Left Untested

Diane Ravitch

February 21, 2012

 

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/feb/21/no-student-left-untested/