grier has ideas, mr. seton has ideas, they all sound good but once we make them universal, i would probably vote for mr. grier to be superintendent or mr. luna to be superintendent of their school i don't want them to be the national superintendent of schools. it is a difference. how much is it federal? i think the most part, this is a philosophical point, the farther we get away from the local school the worse it gets. the farther we get away from local government to national government, the worse the oversight gets. i don't know that we can judge who a good teacher is. i think miss geisselhardt is a good teacher but i would have to know more, sit in her class and look at that. i would have to judge on how well her students are doing. it's complicated. i don't think i can ever know whether she's a good teacher or not. columbia, kentucky, is different than memphis, different than houston. so my argument for is to keep in mind that there is a philosophical question here on local versus federal and i think we're

grier has ideas, mr. seton has ideas, they all sound good but once we make them universal, i would probably vote for mr. grier to be superintendent or mr. luna to be superintendent of their school i don't want them to be the national superintendent of schools. it is a difference. how much is it federal? i think the most part, this is a philosophical point, the farther we get away from the local school the worse it gets. the farther we get away from local government to national government, the worse the oversight gets. i don't know that we can judge who a good teacher is. i think miss geisselhardt is a good teacher but i would have to know more, sit in her class and look at that. i would have to judge on how well her students are doing. it's complicated. i don't think i can ever know whether she's a good teacher or not. columbia, kentucky, is different than memphis, different than houston. so my argument for is to keep in mind that there is a philosophical question here on local versus federal and i think we're

mr. schnur said and go to seton from memphis. the bill would be improved with a larger incentive for teacher and principal evaluation. memphis is currently going through a teacher/principal evaluation. almost every teacher is involved in it. and, that's the result of a program that raced to the top that had an incentive for states that wanted to do to teacher and principal evaluation. what's going on? what's your experience there? how are teachers and principals are responding to it? wh what's role should the federal government have in regulating it? >> good morning. thank you to the chairman for having me here. we in tennessee are actually, i believe, setting the standard nationally, and hopefully, people will start paying attention to what we're doing with regards to evaluations. we know that if you want something you have to inspect it or evaluate it. so, we took the lead with accepting the race to the top, we decided that we were going to look at putting a good teacher, an effective teacher in front of every young person that

mr. schnur said and go to seton from memphis. the bill would be improved with a larger incentive for teacher and principal evaluation. memphis is currently going through a teacher/principal evaluation. almost every teacher is involved in it. and, that's the result of a program that raced to the top that had an incentive for states that wanted to do to teacher and principal evaluation. what's going on? what's your experience there? how are teachers and principals are responding to it? wh what's role should the federal government have in regulating it? >> good morning. thank you to the chairman for having me here. we in tennessee are actually, i believe, setting the standard nationally, and hopefully, people will start paying attention to what we're doing with regards to evaluations. we know that if you want something you have to inspect it or evaluate it. so, we took the lead with accepting the race to the top, we decided that we were going to look at putting a good teacher, an effective teacher in front of every young person that

grier has ideas, mr. seton has ideas, they all sound good but once we make them universal, i would probably vote for mr. grier to be superintendent or mr. luna to be superintendent of their school i don't want them to be the national superintendent of schools. it is a difference. how much is it federal? i think the most part, this is a philosophical point, the farther we get away from the local school the worse it gets. the farther we get away from local government to national government, the worse the oversight gets. i don't know that we can judge who a good teacher is. i think miss geisselhardt is a good teacher but i would have to know more, sit in her class and look at that. i would have to judge on how well her students are doing. it's complicated. i don't think i can ever know whether she's a good teacher or not. columbia, kentucky, is different than memphis, different than houston. so my argument for is to keep in mind that there is a philosophical question here on local versus federal and i think we're