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L.A. Unified to issue its own 'value-added' ratings of district schools
- 10-15-2010
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Blog by Louis Freedberg/California Watch
For the past year, the Los Angeles Unified School District has contracted with an outside consulting firm that has been doing its own "value-added" analysis of how effective schools are contributing to student outcomes. The researchers with the firm, Education Strategy Consulting, said the results they have come up with are substantially different from those published for individual schools by the Los Angeles Times in its pathbreaking but controversial series of reports "Grading the Teachers." Most of the attention generated by the L.A. Times series has focused on the paper's evaluations of individual teachers and its decision to publish their names alongside their "effectiveness" rating. (more…)
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