Teacher ranking road show heads for Broadway.
What started in LA is now moving to NY.
The Department of Education has promised to release personal value added teacher rankings to the press. The rankings are based on student test scores at the beginning of the year and at the end. No research supports the use of student test scores as a reliable measure of teacher effectiveness.
The teachers union plans to go to court to block the release of the rankings.
A NY teacher commented at Gotham Schools:
I am a teacher who has wanted to know my rating for a very long time. I cannot
