“At least some of the answers to turning around our nation’s struggling K-12 public schools can be found at the nearest preschool….  At a time of considerable urgency and demand for improvements in our nation’s schools, particularly when it comes to evaluating the effectiveness of teachers, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Instead of looking to the development and implementation of new educational models and methodologies, K-12 educators would do well to learn from the lessons and experience accrued by their counterparts in the early childhood sector, specifically when it comes to teacher performance evaluation.”

Robert Pianta, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, “Implementing Observation Protocols: Lessons for K-12 Education from the Field of Early Childhood,” May 2012