Evaluating Teachers

From the New York Times, Jan 16, 2010 edition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17sun2.html

One of the teachers' organizations in the United States has developed a proposal by which teachers may be evaluated and new teachers mentored. It sounds like a good idea and to criticize it probably unfair; but, the reality is, more teacher bureaucracy in no ways encourages teachers or children in the classroom. Whether or not the union supports the idea is irrelevant, most teachers do try to teach and do try to do their best; however, processes of evaluation in no way supports their endeavours except to pad an individually successful teacher's resume. Tools are still unavailable to some classes and the individual problems of students cannot be handled in a factory like setting; children are not widgets and adjusting management cannot really solve student problems.