Evaluate Teachers? : QuEST Papers Series, #4 / David Selden.

"Teacher evaluation," a perennial educational red herring, is not a valid means of significantly improving educational quality. Raising the level of teaching performance nationwide will first require (1) a doubling of labor costs to establish a manageable maximum class size and to reduce teaching ho...

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Main Author: Selden, David
Corporate Author: American Federation of Teachers
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1969.
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Physical Description:6 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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