NYC Teacher Stats to Go Public, Plus D.C.'s Michelle Rhee Gets (More) Political - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

NYC Teacher Stats to Go Public, Plus D.C.'s Michelle Rhee Gets (More) Political - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine: "NYC Teacher Stats to Go Public, Plus D.C.'s Michelle Rhee Gets (More) Political
Katherine Mangu-Ward | January 12, 2011

New York teachers have been suing to keep their performance stats on the QT, but a judge ruled this week that value-added data, which compares student test score at the beginning and end of their time in a teacher's classroom to rate her performance, should be free:

The ruling would allow the New York City school district to release performance rankings for more than 12,000 of its teachers to the media outlets that have requested the information....

The rankings at issue in this court case—called the teacher data reports (TDRs)—were developed four years ago for more than 12,000 of the city’s 80,000 public-school teachers"