Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

Bolstered by new research and federal incentives, experts decided about a decade ago that better teacher evaluation was the path to better student achievement. A flood of states started toughening their teacher-evaluation systems, and many of them did it by incorporating student-test scores into educators' ratings.

And while those policies are still in place in a majority of states, there are signs the tide is turning: Over the past two years, a handful of states have begun reversing mandates on using student-growth measures—and standardized-test scores, in particular—to gauge teacher quality.

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/11/15/are-states-changing-course-on-teacher-evaluation.html?cmp=eml-eb-popweek+12012017&M=58295082&U=2050105