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epaa-1980	Pullin, Diana	Performance Measures for Teachers and Teacher Education: Corporate Education Reform Opens the Door to New Legal Issues	2015	36	.pdf	application/pdf	19644	956	45	Following up on Race to the Top federal and state initiatives to substantially change approaches to the evaluation of teachers (Umpstead, Pogodzinski & Lund, 2013), the Obama Administration has announced new federal requirements to judge teacher education programs by the performance of their graduates (U.S. Department of Education, 2014). The collection and use of big data sets to generate information about educational performance range from the long- standing work of the federal government through its regulation of higher education and its data reporting at the National Center for Education Statistics (National Research Council, 2001), to the US News and World Reports (2014) ranking of higher education institutions, The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) rankings of teacher education programs (Cochran-Smith, Piazza & Power, 2012), to local news media (many using in-house analytic journalists or hired statistical consultants)	cache/epaa-1980.pdf	txt/epaa-1980.txt