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Perspective

Jul. 28, 2015

Public education shaped by litigation

A new lawsuit against several California school districts asks not whether stadardized test scores must be factored into teacher evaluations, but how such achievement data should be used. By Peter Fagen, Roy Combs and Jordan Bilbeisi


By Peter Fagen, Roy Combs and Jordan Bilbeisi


Few education policy matters today seem as divisive as the role of standardized testing
in assessing teacher effectiveness. Education reform advocates, such as the Students
Matter nonprofit group, have long maintained that standardized test scores are "important
and reliable measure of effective teaching." Others, such as the California Teachers
A...

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