Teacher “effectiveness” ratings Freedom of Information Requests
Andy Rotherham over at Eduwonk posted an Irony Alert yesterday as many media outlets poised themselves to start “outing” ineffective teachers by posting publicly those teacher’s value-added effectiveness scores.Rotherham argued:
In light of this blow up about value-added in New York City, in a lot of places if the teachers unions would actually get serious about actually using value-add data as part of teacher evaluations it could be shielded from “Freedom of Information”requests that identify teachers, just as many aspects of personnel evaluations are. They’re caught in their own mousetrap here. My take on the larger issue from a few weeks ago and LA.
I thought…. hmmm… really? That doesn’t seem right. Is this just a clever argument intended to dupe teachers
