Printer-friendly versionThe first results trickling out from states' new systems to measure teacher effectiveness paint a picture of a K-12 system that remains hesitant to differentiate between the best and the weakest performers-as well as among all those in the middle doing a solid job who still have room to improve. The observation components of the systems tended to produce the highest scores. The article is in Education Week.
Getting Ideas into Action: Building Networked Improvement Communities in Education
In this Carnegie essay by Anthony Bryk, Louis Gomez and Alicia Grunow, the authors argue that the social organization of the research enterprise is badly broken and a very different alternative is needed. They instead support a science of improvement research and introduce the idea of a networked improvement community that creates the purposeful collective action needed to solve complex educational problems.
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