Gates Foundation Cooks Data for Media on Value of Value-Added Teacher Evaluations
Susan Ohanian has this on Jesse Rothstein's assessment of what is going at the Gates Foundation to push its commitment to using VAM test scores to evaluate teachers, despite what the Foundation's own research shows. If you are shocked at this, get over it. Where these guys even bother to use research to push their agenda, you may bet with good odds that it's cooked.
In a wowser of a technical review, Rothstein finds that The Gates Foundation study on teachers' value-added performance "is an unprecedented opportunity to learn about what makes an effective teacher. However, there are troubling indications that the Project's conclusions were predetermined." [Emphasis added." This, of course, comes as no surprise to teachers across
