Not that this is particularly relevant, but this was written by my high-school ex-girlfriend and she turned the article into a book: https://www.amazon.com/Building-Better-Teacher-Teaching-Ever...

She now runs a non-profit educational news network called Chalkbeat: https://www.chalkbeat.com/

She's pretty smart regarding journalism and media stuff generally so if you're working on something related shoot me an email (in profile) and I'll try to make an intro if it seems interesting.

Elizabeth Green , in her book[1] claims that this whole debate regarding teacher evaluation, free markets VS teacher autonomy is wrong. The answer lies in better teacher training. [2] Is an interesting article about that, which shows what can be done and how does it work when you offer better teacher training.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Building-Better-Teacher-Teaching-Every...

[2]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html...