Colleges Play Catch-up with HEA

It's nice to know that through all the hubbub of standardized testing scores for children, the future educators are not being left out.  This article details how a new report will be emerging in October of this year that rates teacher education programs, with a large emphasis being placed on - you guessed it - test scores.  Interesting, since that (to me) has little to do with whether or not the prospective teacher will be a great instructor.  Maybe I'm just feeling jaded as I recently had my brush with the ORELA and found it to be a rather unpleasant experience.  But again the government is running into the problem of evaluating the ability of teachers through yet another skewed lens.  It would be as if a panel were judging the quality of a singer on their pitch accuracy alone, and failing to account for the wide array of factors needed for a "great" singer.  Perhaps someday, there will be a method by which my future profession can be tangibly measured.  For now, we'll continue to fumble in the dark throwing random data around, hoping the target will be hit once or twice.