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Times’ teacher ratings: solution or a problem?
- 09-28-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Using students’ test results to evaluate teachers is a “solution in search of a problem” that diverts attention from larger inequities facing America’s poor children. It’s part of “a war on America’s teachers.” To the contrary, it’s an effective way to wean out the least effective teachers and reward the best. And it beats the other forms of ineffective and subjective teacher evaluations that led to not one dismissal, out of 45,000 teachers in Los Angeles Unified, for reasons of poor teaching. The views were emphatic, with little common ground, Monday at a forum sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education on issues related to the Los Angeles Times’ controversial decision to publish the names and effectiveness ratings of 6,000 elementary school teachers in Los Angeles, based on their students’ scores on annual standardized tests in math and reading. (more…)
Also: California Watch
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