Okay, let’s try this one more time.

Everyone seems to agree that the present scheme for evaluating teachers and principals is as good as useless. No system that judges 98 percent of workers to be “good” or “great” can be trusted.

At the same time, there’s no agreement that a fair, consistent, reliable, and effective system exists to replace the current one. Nor are we close to having one.

Yet reformers continue to beat a drum — hoping to make up in noise what they lack in accuracy — pounding out that we are good-to-go with a comprehensive and workable teacher evaluation alternative.

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