Rob Meyer canâ??t help but get excited when he hears President Barack Obama talking about the need for states to start measuring whether their teachers, schools and districts are doing enough to help students succeed.
“What heâ??s talking about is what we are doing,” says Meyer, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Value-Added Research Center.
If states hope to secure a piece of Obamaâ??s $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” stimulus money, theyâ??ll have to commit to using research data to evaluate student progress and the effectiveness of teachers, schools and districts.