Teaching In Dangerous Times - In this era of demans for teacher quality, it is crucial to develop culturally relevant ways to asess teachers. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Rethinking Schools, Summer 2000
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/Archives/14_04/dan144.htm
Educational researchers and scholars of color have long suspected that traditional teaching assessment techniques systematically screen out teachers of color from the teaching field. For example, in 1997 I was personally told that during a recent round of testing for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, no candidates of color passed the Early Adolescence/English Language Arts Assessment.

Do proposed new "authentic" teacher assessment techniques continue in this vein? And, if so, do alternative assessments need to be formulated, and what proficiency or skill areas must these assessments address?