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| *August 26, 2011 NY APPEALS COURT RULES THAT TEACHER RATINGS CAN BE PUBLIC "A New York state appeals court ruled Thursday that performance ratings for thousands of teachers can be made public, potentially clearing the way for the largest such data release in the country." >>read more>> Related article: *August 28, 2011 UFT PRESIDENT MULGREW IS RIGHT: KEEP THE TEACHER DATA PRIVATE “Don't get me wrong. Student achievement should be incorporated into teacher evaluation and compensation, and transparency is a vital tool for recognizing excellence and shaming mediocrity. But a public data release is the wrong way to get there.” >>read more>> |
| April 12, 2011 L.A. UNIFIED RELEASES SCHOOL RATINGS USING ‘VALUE-ADDED’ METHOD “The approach focuses on how much progress students make year to year rather than measuring solely their achievement level. Parents are likely to be surprised.” >>read more>> |
| December 17, 2010 RESEARCHER THOMAS KANE EXPLAINS THE LINK BETWEEN GOOD TEACHERS AND GOOD TEST SCORES >>read this article>> |
| November 17, 2010 EVALUATING TEACHERS: THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF VALUE-ADDED “Teaching is a complex task and value-added captures only a portion of the impact of differences in teacher effectiveness. Thus high stakes decisions based on value-added measures of teacher performance will be imperfect. We do not advocate using value-added measures alone when making decisions about hiring, firing, tenure, compensation, placement, or developing teachers, but surely value-added information ought to be in the mix given the empirical evidence that it predicts more about what students will learn from the teachers to which they are assigned than any other source of information.” >>read more>> |
| September 13, 2010 COULD VALUE-ADDED SAVE TEACHERS’ JOBS? “(I)s there a reason to think that the data could help other teachers make the case that they are effective? The experience of some union affiliates with value-added suggests that is a possibility.” >>read more<< |
| September 7, 2010 ASSESSING A TEACHER’S VALUE “Rather than focusing on producers — in other words, teachers — policy makers should ask what they can do for consumers — parents and their children.” >>read more<< |
| September 1, 2010 WHEN DOES HOLDING TEACHERS ACCOUNTABLE GO TO FAR? “If schools instead try to measure the work of teachers, some will inevitably be misjudged. ‘On whose behalf do you want to make the mistake — the kids or the teachers?’ asks Kati Haycock, president of the Education Trust. ‘We’ve always erred on behalf of the adults before.’ ” >>read more<< |
| August 31, 2010 FORMULA TO GRADE TEACHERS’ SKILL GAINS ACCEPTANCE, AND CRITICS “Use of value-added modeling is exploding nationwide. Hundreds of school systems, including those in Chicago, New York and Washington, are already using it to measure the performance of schools or teachers. Many more are expected to join them, partly because the Obama administration has prodded states and districts to develop more effective teacher-evaluation systems than traditional classroom observation by administrators.” >>read more<< |
| *August 28, 2010 NO GOLD STARS FOR SUCCESSFUL L.A. TEACHERS “Experts have long known that highly effective teachers can overcome the challenges students face both inside and outside of school. But why they are so successful — and whether their skills can be passed along to others — remains largely a mystery.” >>read more<< |
| August 22, 2010 LOS ANGELES TIMES RATES TEACHERS USING VALUE-ADDED SYSTEM: YOUR NUMBERS UP “Make no mistake, this study published in the Los Angeles Times holds all the ingredients to create a paradigm shift in the way that teachers may be evaluated in the future as it yields an “objective” number based on student test results. I would recommend teachers outside of Los Angeles get their eyes on this work because there really isn't any reason every district in the land wont' be considering it as long as there is the data for it to justified.” >>read more<< |
| August 16, 2010 U.S. SCHOOLS CHIEF ENDORSES RELEASE OF TEACHER DATA “U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that parents have a right to know if their children's teachers are effective, endorsing the public release of information about how well individual teachers fare at raising their students' test scores. ‘What's there to hide?’ Duncan said in an interview one day after The Times published an analysis of teacher effectiveness in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest school system. ‘In education, we've been scared to talk about success.’ “ >>read more<< |
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