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**Race to the top and its effect on teachers - Becky, Paige, & Stephanie** ﻿ - Retrieved from Google Images

With this program there is a lot more expected from teacher's, making their job even more challenging then it already is.
 * Obamas' Race to the Top program emphasizes improving quality education and improving teacher quality.
 * Teachers will not be evaluated on their students academic achievements, through their academic growth and test scores.
 * Race to the Top now suggests five accountability measures for teachers:
 * "A teacher effectiveness measure that reports on whether program graduates help their K-12 students to learn


 * Measures of classroom teaching performance of program graduates built on reliable and valid classroom observation instruments


 * Persistence rates in teaching for all program graduates, disclosed to the public for up to five years post-completion

> > same pass rate policies" - Crowe, E. (2011, March). Race to the Top and Teacher Preparation, analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation. //Center for American Progress.// Retrieved from []. >
 * Feedback surveys from program graduates and from their employers
 * A new system of teacher licensure testing, with the number of current tests cut by more than 90 percent, and with every state adopting the same tests and the

> achieve acceptable rates (at least one grade level in an academic year) of student > growth.” - Crowe, E. (2011, March). Race to the Top and Teacher Preparation, analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation//. Center for American Progress.// Retrieved from  []. > >
 * “Effective teachers” are defined for the Race to the Top as those “whose students