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Utah lawmakers question how to measure gains from career ladders, ask whether current tests will do the job
Summary
Legislators pressed education panelists on whether Utah's career ladder investments and a proposed large funding increase can be shown to improve student outcomes, and whether the state's core assessments can be used for statewide comparisons instead of or alongside NAEP. The committee dissolved after the exchange.
Legislators questioned Tuesday whether Utah has the standards and tests needed to prove that recent investments in teachers and curriculum are producing measurable student gains.
The debate centered on the career ladder program and how to hold spending accountable. Speaker 4 asked panel members to "justify in accountability" whether the state's sizable investment in career ladders has been successful and whether children are "smarter now than they were 6 years ago." Speaker 2, a panel member, said career ladders have produced "a much better teacher evaluation program" and stronger staff development, enabling teachers to grow and support curriculum development and supervision. Speaker 2 cautioned, however, that "we don't have any research design to show that 1 to 1 ratio." Speaker 1 added that in…
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