Nothing to Hide and No Excuses: Video Evaluation to Raise Teacher Quality

This stuff is for real. The Gates Foundation has invested $335 million in video evaluation of teachers: "The goal is to study what is taking place on a scientific level; to note what is working and what is not working... While we all wait for Superman to come along for our children and for the economy, we are fortunate to have those with the means reach out and do something about our failing schools."
http://groundupct.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/gates-foundation-invest-335-millio...

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Education

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• video evaluation
• surveillance
• NCLB
• teacher quality
• assessment
• data-driven decision making
• performance pay
• data-driven
• xtranormal

[iamcompucomp]

Randi Weingarten, head of AFT: Conflict is the status quo in education. In Pittsburgh and in Hillsborough County, Fla., two of the places where the Gates Foundation has heavily invested, you see a culture of working together to make these changes. Newsweek 2019/12/20

Football teams do this all the time. They look at the tape after every game. Sometimes they do it during the game.

[iamcompucomp]

@iamcompucomp As you can see from the above two quotes from Weingarten in Newsweek, there is no explicit opposition to involvement of private "investment" in education or to video play by play. The question is, can public education trust corporate philanthropy? Can videos be shipped off to the appointees of a computer corporation wedded to government to determine a teacher's fate without it becoming surveillance?

[iamcompucomp]

Please check out my other video "Nothing to Hide and No Excuses: Race from this Axe". The tab is just above the video frame.

[MrSieish]

@Yari1066 lol

[Mariathebigcat]

This makes me glad I never became a teacher even though I got my degree.

[DarkHumorist]

I want to be a teacher, but if something like this became common place, I would really reconsider

[sugatoniik]

cant wait til animoto improves in quality

[OperationAnime262]

How can inexpreiced teachers tell teachers how to teach that's obsured.

[bassk1000o]

scary stuff

[jdstein1]

Wow. Scary shit.

[prezunion]

Repeat after me: If you make life worse for teachers you make life better for students. Repeat it until you believe it. It will not be true, but you will believe it.