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Teacher Performance Plays Growing Role in Employment Decisions. Teacher Tenure: Trends in State Laws
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Thomsen, Jennifer – Education Commission of the States, 2014
An increasing number of states are mandating teacher performance be considered in educator employment decisions, including awarding tenure and layoffs, according to a 50-state policy review of teacher tenure laws. Tenure laws have historically granted job protections based on years of employment. The Education Commission of the States (ECS)…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness, Personnel Management, Personnel Policy
The Legal Consequences of Mandating High Stakes Decisions Based on Low Quality Information: Teacher Evaluation in the Race-to-the-Top Era
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Baker, Bruce D.; Oluwole, Joseph O.; Green, Preston C., III – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
In this article, we explain how overly prescriptive, rigid state statutory and regulatory policy frameworks regarding teacher evaluation, tenure and employment decisions outstrip the statistical reliability and validity of proposed measures of teaching effectiveness. We begin with a discussion of the emergence of highly prescriptive state…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Employment, Tenure
A Report of a Study of Sex Bias Perceptions in Idaho Vocational Programs. Final Report.
Kaufman, Jack J.; And Others – 1979
A study was conducted to determine the degree, if any, of sex discrimination resulting from sex bias within vocational programs in the state of Idaho. The following three objectives were developed: (1) to determine the proportion, by sex, of administrators, teachers, counselors, and students making up the population of participants in vocational…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes, Enrollment, Enrollment Influences