Zero effect of teacher evaluation reform A major study of teacher evaluation reform initiatives between 2009 and 2017 found that those efforts had no effect on student achievement or educational attainment. Furthermore, the evaluation efforts decreased job satisfaction among new teachers and added heavily to the workload of administrators. The study looked at 44 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, using the timing of when states adopted their reforms and comparing them with district-level student achievement data as well as the American Community Survey. bit.ly/3nExmWG 34% of teachers considering leaving the field In the latest of a growing number of pandemic-era studies on teachers’ career plans, Teachers Pay Teachers surveyed 6,000 teachers in November 2021 and found that nearly half (48%) were considering changing