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Should California teachers be graded by students scores?
- 09-08-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
A once-arcane debate has suddenly burst into parent blogs and school board rooms: Should teachers be graded by their students' tests scores? And should parents and the public know how their teachers rank? The Los Angeles Times set off a firestorm last month after employing an elaborate formula to rank 6,000 third- through fifth-grade teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District, based on student test scores -- and publishing the results. The score sheet has reaped praise from parents hungry for information about their teachers, guarded enthusiasm from an Obama administration pushing reform, but anger from teachers unions, who blasted the method as unfair, inaccurate and humiliating. It's a complicated and unusual gauge for teaching, but one embraced by several school districts around the country -- and now possibly Los Angeles -- although it is not used in the South Bay. The Oak Grove School District in San Jose does consider student test scores when evaluating teachers, but only as one of eight standards. (more…)
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