Timothy Webb

Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Education

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Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education, one of two states to win in the first round of Race to The Top and awarded a little more than $500 million

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So-called "value-added analysis" is being used all over the country as a measurement of public school-teacher performance.  It is strongly promoted by President Obama's  Race to the…

Value-Added Teacher Evaluations and the Race to the Top

So-called "value-added analysis" is being used all over the country as a measurement of public school-teacher performance.  It is strongly promoted by President Obama's Race to the…

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Very few public school teachers fail to get tenure, and education reformers have struggled to find an objective measurement of teacher performance.

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Very few public school teachers fail to get tenure, and education reformers have struggled to find an objective measurement of teacher performance.

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