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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100927:17:35:00

And 40% is based on five observations of their classroom practice. two are done by external evaluators that don t have to do with the school or the principal. 5% is based on overall how the school is doing. there is a team and individual concept and 5% based on softer things like the contributions to school community. it s looking through multiple lenses and it s comprehensive and objective. the fact that she would say for some reason that that was not as good of a system as being 100% subjective like what we had before i find boggling. let s see what she had to say last night about what the unions are doing and not doing. i think the point of departure between michelle and i may be that i see just like in finland and singapore and other places that we need to all actually work together, focus on struck, focused on how we help people do the best jobs they ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100723:23:19:00

Most but a debate about how you measure quality and the testing. i want to read you something from a report, the research arm of the michigan education association which to be clear is the teachers union but they say u.s. states with high academic standards fare no better or worse than those identified as having low standards. research support for standards driven test based accountability systems is similarly weak and nations with centralized standards generally tend to perform no better or worse on international tests than those without. essentially they re challenging this idea that the white house is for, that you are for, that we need to go to this test-based system. we don t just look at test scores. we look at test scores as part of the entire picture so 50% of the teacher s evaluation is based on how much students grow, not an absolute mark but how much they grow over the course of the year. 40% is based on observations of their classroom practice. and we observe them five ti ....

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