The test score witch-hunt in LA
, a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, looks at the anti-union agenda behind "value-added" evaluation of teacher performance.
September 2, 2010
The value-added model that the Los Angeles Times applied to teachers in its article is very controversial among experts
THE SCHOOL year in the Los Angeles Unified School District is about to kick off--with two unpaid furlough days due to budget cuts and union concessions--and teachers and parents are grappling with a debate over a recent Los Angeles Times article "Who's Teaching L.A.'s Kids?"
The article unveils a study of individual teacher effectiveness in LAUSD, based on a "value-added measure"--meaning how much "value" an individual teacher has added to a student's expected yearly growth as measured by California standardized reading and math tests. If a student's test scores