Last week, I wrote about a Well-Intentioned, But Odd & Unworkable Effort To Incorporate Parent Involvement In New Jersey Teacher Evaluations.
Now, Education Week has written a piece on the same issue titled N.J. Lawmaker Wants Parent Involvement Included in Teachers’ Reviews.
Here’s a short excerpt that describe its possible impact:
It isn’t clear how (or whether) this information would affect the student-achievement component of students’ scores; the bill itself doesn’t say. But presumably, a teacher who had to deal with very uninvolved parents might get some kind of protection from a bad evaluation score.