Teachers evaluating teachers
Subtitle: peer review and the new unionism
By: by Myron Lieberman.
Series: [Studies in social philosophy & policy ;; no. 20]
Publisher: Social Philosophy & Policy Center; Transaction Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bowling Green, OH; New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Teachers -- Rating of -- United States.; Teachers -- Rating of -- Ohio -- Columbus.; Teachers -- Rating of -- Ohio -- Toledo.; Peer review -- United States.; Peer review -- Ohio -- Columbus.; Peer review -- Ohio -- Toledo.; Teachers' unions -- United States.
Description: As a writer on education reform, Myron Lieberman has criticized America's two largest teacher organizations - the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) - for standing in the way of needed improvement in our system of public education. One of the most telling criticisms of these organizations is that they have been too quick to defend teachers charged with incompetence. In response to this charge from Lieberman and others, the NEA and the AFT have championed a "new unionism," under which the teacher unions themselves, and their local affiliates, assume responsibility for ensuring teacher competence by instituting peer review systems. In Teachers Evaluating Teachers, Lieberman explores the peer review phenomenon and the teacher unions' stake in perpetuating it. The true test of a program's success should be improvement in teacher competence, which would lead to gains in student achievement, but Lieberman argues that there is no evidence that student scores on standardized tests have improved in districts with peer review. Indeed, Lieberman shows that peer review has had little or no impact on the number of teachers dismissed on grounds of poor performance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-132) and index.
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