Teachers should be evaluated by student test scores ... well ...

[napkinz]

[RC]

1. How about letting teachers teach?

Public education should not be a political football, subject to the whims of of those that think money rules all.
This is one place where we do need to think of the children. That is not happening anymore, except where they count on a spreadsheet for money distribution.

[SheilaT]

4. Yep. That sounds like a reasonably good idea to me.

Teach. Teach a lot of content in the various subjects. Give the kids as much hands-on experience as is practical. Make sure they get recess in elementary school.

Certain benchmarks of achievement or learning are important, but those probably aren't all that difficult to measure.

When I was in school, through eighth grade, each spring we took the Achievement Tests. They measured what we'd learned so far in various subject areas, and we got back our scores based on a grade level: third grade fourth month in reading, or seventh grade fifth month in math. Ideally, you'd score at your grade level in each area. I rather expect it tended to reinforce what the teachers already knew about us. And perhaps some decisions about where to place us the next year were made from them, but there was never the sense that it was a high-stakes thing. Never. And I can assure you our teachers did not teach to the test. They taught us. We took the test.

[Daphne08]

5. This is the reason teachers and professors

are granted tenure... it's traditionally been the only protection educators have against politicians (from local all the way to state and federal) and their influence.

Public education has always been a political football.

[Riley18]

2. They would say the are evaluated by votes.

Which is not always the case when big money campaigns for them. I just got done talking to a teacher about the lack of respect for teachers. It has gotten steadily worse each year.

[Missycim]

3. They are evaluated by their job preformence

Every election they can be fired.