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JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF RELEASING TEACHER TEST SCORES
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JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF RELEASING TEACHER TEST SCORES; DATA DUMP WOULD PROMOTE A FLAWED AND CYNICAL METHOD OF ACCOUNTABILITY
By Norm Scott
January 11, 2011

Would you gauge the effectiveness of individual doctors by the percentage of patients who live or die under their care? Should firemen be held accountable when a building burns down? Should individual soldiers in Afghanistan be compared to each other on the basis of “success” or “failure” in controlling the Taliban in a given area?

Any effort to do so would spark a major outcry. But when it comes to teaching, there is a different standard.

On Monday Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Kern ruled that the NYC Department of Education was obliged to release the names of individual teachers with “value-added” test score results that purport to measure teacher effectiveness. Judge Kern brushed aside arguments by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) that the release of unreliable data would unjustly harm teachers’ reputations writing “there is no requirement that data be reliable for it to be disclosed.”

The data dump will affect more than 12,000 classroom educators in Grades 4 to 8. The UFT is expected to appeal. There is some irony here as it was the UFT that signed off on the use of value-added in the first place after Joel Klein promised the results would not be made public, while many skeptical critics in the union raised questions about that deal and warned it would turn into a disaster for teachers.

more . . . http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-article-on-teacher-value-added-data.html
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