During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama said that his administration would "create a voluntary national performance assessment so we can be sure that every new educator is trained and ready to walk into the classroom and start teaching effectively."

In searches using Google, Whitehouse.gov and Nexis, we were unable to find any evidence that the administration has acted publicly to advance this promise, although at least one education advocate, Lewis Cohen, executive director of the Coalition of Essential Schools, told PolitiFact that the proposal is "in the discussion stage."

Whenever the "discussion stage" morphs into a tangible advance, we'll move this promise to In the Works. But as long as the discussion remains behind the scenes, we'll call it Stalled.