Educators Worry Teachers Are Not Getting Adequate Training, Evaluation

Tyler Kingkade:

Education leaders told a House committee Wednesday to focus on crafting comprehensive blueprint for teacher evaluations as Congress moves ahead in overhauling No Child Left Behind.

The four witnesses called before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce agreed educators have not come up with an ideal framework to evaluate teachers. They also expressed concern over whether teachers are being prepared for the classroom, and said the right people might not be going into education in the first place.

Witnesses questioned whether the higher education institutions were actively recruiting people who had a true interest or in being educators.

Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, said half the people that graduate from an education program don't wind up getting teaching jobs.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 28, 2011 1:41 AM
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