Transforming High Schools: Performance Systems for Powerful Teaching

This policy brief, sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, discusses teacher evaluation systems. The author highlights two existing teacher evaluation systems and offers federal policy recommendations for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), including establishing college- and career- readiness as the mission of K-12 education, establishing standards for teacher competency and developing robust assessment systems that judge teachers against the established standards.