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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Huffington Post - "Partnership and Trust Are the Most Important Values We Can Add

Steve Zimmer, a teacher in Los Angeles weighs in on the LA Times story and teacher evaluation on the Huffington Post.
The Los Angeles Times has been running a weekly series that I consider a vicious attack on the integrity of the teaching profession. The reporters have singled out individual Los Angeles Unified School District teachers, identified them by name and, using several years worth of records and a statistical method known as value-added analysis, judged those teachers ineffective or effective by whether the math and English test scores in their classrooms had risen or dropped over time. Click on the link to read more.

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