"Cameras in the classroom: Should we film teachers at work?" [View All]

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"Wyoming lawmakers have proposed installing video cameras in public schools and taping classes to help evaluate teacher performance, but some educators say the Big Brother-esque practice would violate the privacy of teachers and students alike. Other opponents say principals could more effectively monitor teachers by making unannounced visits to classrooms. Will videotaping teachers improve their skills, or merely unnerve them?"
http://theweek.com/article/index/211430/cameras-in-the-classroom-should-we-film-teachers-at-work

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"CAMERAS IN THE CLASSROOM: Video cameras could soon be monitoring teachers in four Wyoming school districts. The Senate Education Committee approved a measure to place cameras in classrooms as a way to evaluate teachers' effectiveness. Evaluations would then be used to determine teacher pay raises, the Casper Star-Tribune reports. The bill would make Wyoming among the first states to film teachers in the classroom. A pilot program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has already placed cameras in classrooms in six urban school districts to identify successful teaching practices."
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=546073
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"The $90 million grant has allowed MCS to create the New Teachers Project. Strategic partners are used to recruit and hire higher caliber teachers.

More timely evaluations have helped as well. But MCS Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash says one of the major moves this grant provides is putting cameras in classrooms."
http://www.wreg.com/wreg-gates-visit-mcs-story,0,2611109.story
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