Teachers unions filed a lawsuit earlier this year saying that the state Public Education Department鈥檚 evaluation of teachers using student standardized test scores is punitive.
PED recently decided to de-emphasize test scores in teacher evaluations and to make allowances for instructors whose subjects are not evaluated on standardized tests鈥攍ike music and art.
Commentator Andrea Mays says this is a good first step toward assessing the difficult work teachers do.
Andrea Mays is an American Studies scholar who lives in Santa Fe. Her column, , is published by the .