NEA Proposes Making a Shift On Evaluation.

The article discusses the National Education Association (NEA) teachers' labor union, which has decided to create a policy statement that will allow the use of students' standardized test scores to be used as a factor in teacher evaluations. NEA president Dennis Van Roekel comments on the debate in the U.S. regarding teacher evaluations. The evaluation system would include an evaluation of teachers' teaching methods and classroom management skills, the educational leadership exhibited by teachers, and the use of standardized tests to determine teacher performance.