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Teachers Should Be Evaluated Like Athletes: Here's Why
Hunter Gehlbach
Assistant professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
With every bubble of knowledge that students darken using their #2 pencils, our nation increases its infatuation with measuring teachers' performance through students' standardized test scores. Despite the intuitive appeal of evaluating teachers based on student learning, heavy reliance on these indicators narrows our view of effective teaching in potentially damaging ways.