Poll of the Day: Teacher Tenure

A survey just released by Scholastic Education and the Gates Foundation (hold your fire!) interviewed 10,000 pre-K through 12th grade public school teachers about, among other things, their views on school policies. 90% of teachers surveyed said that tenure “should reflect evaluations of teacher effectiveness,” and that tenure should “not protect ineffective teachers.”

Here’s the survey. Here’s

a report from the Huffington Post, which notes,

Teachers also called for more frequent and rigorous evaluations, echoing the education-reform movement. Eighty-five percent of teachers surveyed signaled that they support the use of student achievement data in their evaluations, but only 26 percent said they saw standardized test scores as a reflection of student learning.