NCLB Waivers: The Details in the Devil's Bargain
Guest post by Jack Hassard.
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) wants to insure that every teacher in the U.S. is evaluated on the basis on student progress on high-stakes achievement tests. To achieve this, the DOE will issues waivers on some aspects of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in exchange for a state-wide system to evaluate teachers using tests.
In this post I provide details and opinions on this development.
Waivers In the News
The NCLB waivers have become a newsworthy item. Here are links to a few articles published recently.
- Waiver ties teacher evaluation to test scores, was the title of an article in Atlanta Journal-Constitution on
