Educators need to be engineers of education reform.
Removing teacher input from education reform is analogous to building a bridge or high-rise with the belief that input from construction engineers would be silly.
Predicting the outcomes of "construction reform" of this type seems to have predictable outcomes. Why is it education "reform" anyway? Does "re-forming" mean form again? Maybe "education improvement" instead.
Politicians, economists and finance people get to do all the reforms, haven't you heard? Come to the hospital business. Here, our revenues can grow (literally) $500,000,000 year over year, and they will tell you that you need to increase productivity, etc., etc. All these people are money hungry pigs who don't care about education, healthcare, or anything else. Good luck when you have 60 students in your class.
Ignoring that is the real problem with how we educate. Nice duck, Atlantic.A teacher's instruction matters in student performance, but too many other things (a student's socioeconomic background, upbringing, parental involvement, motivation) also matter for students' test scores to be a reasonable indicator of a teacher's merit.
Can we just come out and say it? A student's intelligence also matters?