Campbell Brown: Teachers Should Be Evaluated on Performance Like Most Professions

‘I think it’s about us beginning to treat teachers like professionals’

Campbell Brown: Teachers Should Be Evaluated on Performance Like Any Other Profession (Washington Free Beacon)

Campbell Brown, head of the new Partnership for Educational Justice, said Monday on Morning Joe that her challenge of New York teacher tenure lawsstemmed from her desire to treat teachers like other professionals who are evaluated based on their performance.

The former CNN correspondent also appeared on The Colbert Report July 31 to promote her views, where she told the host that more than 90 percent of teachers in the state are deemed “effective” or “highly effective,” yet only 31 percent of kids in New York are reading, writing and doing math at grade level.

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