{"id":2016,"date":"2014-03-06T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/dont-link-teacher-pay-to-student-performance-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:03:27","slug":"dont-link-teacher-pay-to-student-performance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dont-link-teacher-pay-to-student-performance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t link teacher pay to student performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Furman education professor Paul Thomas, linking teacher evaluations to student standardized test scores is a bad idea that will not die. Such evaluation methods join grade retention, charter schools and Common Core as bad policies that are refuted by the research base\u2014resulting in a tremendous waste of time and funding that could be better spent for South Carolina and its students. Thomas wrote a March 6 op-ed on the subject for\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/03\/06\/3307295\/thomas-dont-link-teacher-pay-to.html\">The State<\/a><\/b>\u00a0newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, who taught English in South Carolina\u2019s public schools for 18 years, joined the Furman education faculty in 2002. He has written commentaries for the\u00a0<i>Washington Post<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Guardian<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Education Week<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>The Greenville News<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Furman education professor Paul Thomas, linking teacher evaluations to student standardized test scores is a bad idea that will not die. Such evaluation methods join grade retention, charter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}