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Publishing Teacher Effectiveness Rankings Draws More Criticism

| Louis Freedberg | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Teacher Data Reports, No Child Left Behind, New York Teacher Ratings, Teacher Rankings, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Public Teacher Ratings, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Video, Education, Dennis Walcott, Value Added Assessment, Teacher Effectiveness, Value Added Teachers, New York Times, Value Added, Teachers, Teacher Ratings, Measures of Effective Teaching, Education News

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. The release last month of "value-added" rankings of New York City teachers based on...

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Maybe it's Time to Ask the Teachers?

Linda Darling-Hammond | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Teachers Satisfaction, Teacher Quality, Student Test Scores, Teacher Evaluations, Teacher-Test-Scores, Teacher Assessment, Broader Bolder Approach, Value-Added, Teacher-Job-Satisfaction, Education News

We have never heard more policy rhetoric about developing, recruiting and retaining strong teachers. Ironically, our policies have also never done more to ensure that good teachers have little incentive to serve and stay in those schools.

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Confessions Of A 'Bad' Teacher

The New York Times | William Johnson | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Bad Teachers, Teacher Evaluations, Teacher Ratings, Value Added, Value Added Assessments, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, New York Teacher Ratings, Education News

I AM a special education teacher. My students have learning disabilities ranging from autism and attention-deficit disorder to cerebral palsy and emot...

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Using Value-Added Data To Evaluate Tennessee Teachers

| Sarah Garland | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Tennessee Schools, Teacher Evaluations, Tennessee, Achievement Gap, Teacher Assessment, Value Added Teachers, Hechinger Report, Tennessee Teacher Evaluations, Teachers, Tennessee Teachers, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Memphis Education Association, Value-Added, Video, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. It is the second in a series in a collaboration between The Hechinger Report and Memphis Comm...

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The Value Behind "Value-Added"

John Merrow | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Arne Duncan, Value-Added, Education Reform, Nick Kristof, Michael Bloomberg, Education, Video, Education News

Because evaluating teachers using student achievement scores is here to stay, it's in teachers' interests to argue for better measures of achievement. We need better ways of assessing the value that teachers add to the lives of the children they teach, beyond test scores.

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The Evil Economics Of Judging Teachers

The Awl | Maria Bustillos | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Teacher Evaluations, Value Added, Teachers, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, National Bureau of Economic Research, Teacher Assessments, Judging Teachers, Education News

The Times and a host of other publications heralded last week's new study extolling the lifelong money-earning benefits of having a good primary/middl...

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Gates Foundation Report: Teachers Should Be Graded On Three Criteria

Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Teacher Evaluations, Classroom Observations, Value Added Assessment, Teacher Training, Teacher Assessment, Standardized Testing, Teachers, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Value-Added, Standardized Test Scores, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Video, Education News

As teacher evaluations are becoming more prevalent in schools across the country amid a growing debate on how best to grade teachers, a new report out...

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Has Teacher Quality Really Declined Over Time?

Matthew Di Carlo | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Teacher Quality, Education, Education Reform, Value-Added, Merit Pay, Education Research, Education News

Although the argument that "teacher quality" has declined substantially is sometimes taken for granted, its empirical backing is actually quite thin, and not as clear-cut as some might believe.

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Should Value-Added Teacher Ratings Be Adjusted for Poverty?

Sarah Garland | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Washington DC, Teachers Union, Teacher Evaluations, Poverty, Teachers, Value-Added, School Reform, Education Reform, Education News

Are the best, most experienced D.C. teachers concentrated in the wealthiest schools, while the worst are concentrated in the poorest schools? Or does the statistical model ignore the possibility that it's more difficult to teach a room full of impoverished children?

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Does Publicly Naming Teachers Tied To Student Test Scores Undermine Reform?

Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: New York Teachers, Video, Teacher Evaluations, Value Added Teachers, Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, New York Schools, Teachers, Education Reform, Los Angeles Teachers, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Value-Added, Teacher Performance, Education News

In a departure from recent efforts to publicly name teachers tied to the performance -- and projected performance -- of their students, a new report s...

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Complex New Florida Teacher Evaluations Tied To Student Test Scores

| Laura Isensee and Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Teacher Evaluation Formula, Fcat, Standardized Test Scores, Video, Teacher Evaluations, Florida Schools, Florida Teachers, Standardized Tests, Florida Teacher Evaluations, Standardized Testing, Florida, Teachers, Value Added, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Coral Reef Senior High, Education News

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. At Coral Reef Senior High, calculus teacher Orlando Sarduy understands complicated formu...

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Denver School Performance Increases Slightly As Colorado Sees Flat Test Scores Overall

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.03.2011

Denver Public Schools officials say standardized testing results released Wednesday that show a small performance bump in middle school students are a...

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WATCH: Focus On Accountability In Schools Deemed Too Narrow

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.08.2011

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NEW YORK -- Education policies pushing more tests haven't necessarily led to more learning, according to a new National Research Council report. "W...

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Antonio Villaraigosa: Tough on Teacher Tenure

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Teacher Tenure, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Test Scores, California, Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Linda Darling Hammond, Tenure, Protests, Teachers Union, Teacher Protests, Education Reform, Value-Added, Larry Sand, Education News

School districts around the country are toughening standards for grading teachers. And if Antonio Villaraigosa has his way, Los Angeles could be next....

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How Should New York Measure Teachers?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Testing, Merryl Tisch, New York City Department of Education, Andrew Cuomo, Teacher Evaluations, Arne Duncan, New York State Board of Regents, David Steiner, John King, Standardized Tests, Teachers, Value-Added, Education News

NEW YORK -- As different states seek their own methods for evaluating a profession whose job security has long been determined by experience rather th...

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LA Unified Adopts 'Value-Added' Approach To Teacher Ratings

latimes.com | Jason Song and Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.13.2011

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In a dramatic turn for the country's second-largest school district, Los Angeles Unified released school ratings based on a new approach that measures...

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It's Time to Vet the VAT As a Solution to America's Staggering Debt

Deborah Szekely | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Debt, Vat, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Value-Added-Tax, Value-Added, Politics News

A national value-added tax would keep Americans more attentive to government spending, and it would send a signal to the world that we are serious about deficit spending and debt reduction.

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Money Talks -- Too Much!

Steve Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Size, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Met, Value-Added, A. Alfred Taubman, Teacher Assessment, Education News

The Gates group's approach to educational reform is nearly guaranteed to kill whatever good remnants of teaching and learning remain in America's beleaguered schools.

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The L.A. Times Stands Behind Incorrect Teacher Ratings

Kevin Welner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Teacher Rankings, Los Angeles, Education Research, Education, Ethics in Journalism, Teacher Effectiveness, Los Angeles Times, Value-Added-Models, Teachers, Teacher Ratings, National Education Policy Center, Value-Added, Education News

The L.A. Times has not been simply reporting on teacher evaluations or ratings. It has been creating them and publicizing them.

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Treating Doctors the Way We Treat Teachers (Part Two)

Shaun Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

In order for the United States to remain economically competitive and "win our future," so to speak, we must ensure that we have and maintain a healthy workforce.

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Calculating Value: How To Rate Teachers For Teaching Effectively

John Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, Teacher Evaluation, Lausd, Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times, Education Reform, Los Angeles, Value-Added, Los Angeles Unified School District, Value Added Teachers, Education News

Colorado researchers concluded that the Los Angeles Times' method does not reliably identify the teachers who add value to student test scores.

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Five Bold Ideas For TFA's Next 20 Years

Alexander Russo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tfa, Education Reform, Value-Added-Evaluations, Teach for America, Value-Added, Value Added Teachers, Education News

Here are five completely unsolicited ideas for TFA's next 20 years, on the occasion of its first, written while on the Bolt Bus from New York City to Washington, D.C. for the weekend celebration.

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Why I Don't Trust Education Research

Alan Gottlieb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education Reform, Diane Ravitch, Education Research, Value Added Teachers, Los Angeles Times, University of Colorado, Harvard, National Education Policy Center, Value-Added, University of Arkansas, Denver, Education News

Staring a sentence with the words "research shows" is aimed at sticking a dagger in the heart of an opponent's argument. Increasingly, though, I am finding reasons not to trust education research.

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Teachers Need to Take Control of Their Professional Lives

Nancy Pine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinese Teachers, Standardized Testing, Teacher Rankings, Teachers, Privacy, Value-Added, Education News

For teachers it is a rude awakening to find that after decades of confidential evaluations, parts of them are going public, fast.

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Teachers Want Evaluations

Grace Snodgrass | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Evaluations, Educators for Excellence, Education Reform, Teachers, Teaching, Value-Added, New York City, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Grace Snodgrass, Education News

One day soon, my name and performance evaluation could be printed in your morning newspaper. It will tell you that I'm a teacher who has clear strengths and weaknesses.

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