Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises

January 2017

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Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises

Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises is part of the tenth annual publication in the State Teacher Policy Yearbook report series. This report finds that within the 30 states that require student learning measures to be at least a significant factor in teacher evaluations, state guidance and rules in most states allow teachers to be rated effective even if they receive low scores on the student learning component of the evaluation.
Recommendations for how states can address this challenge are also included in the report.

See below for state-by-state findings:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida 
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho 
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana 
Maine
Maryland 
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri 
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma 
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina 
South Dakota 
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont 
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia 
Wisconsin
Wyoming

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