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Friday, August 26, 2011

This Week In Education: Update: Naive To Print Teachers' Scores, Says TFA Founder

This Week In Education: Update: Naive To Print Teachers' Scores, Says TFA Founder:

Update: Naive To Print Teachers' Scores, Says TFA Founder

Tumblr_lps78bCXrw1qz6f9yo1_500#valueadded #vam Just a day after a New York court found that value-added ratings for public school teachers should be revealed and reported publicly -- something that Joel Klein's DOE succeeded in encouraging the press corps to ask for -- TFA founder Wendy Kopp shot back at the notion that her organization should reveal the value-added ratings for its teachers -- and in particular the charge of being "hilariously hypocritical" in Steve Brill's book. Brill claimed that, because it promotes accountability so fiercely, TFA should reveal its teachers' performance ratings. Kopp claims to have been outraged at the LA Times' decision to name names last year and she writes, "Is it really naive to think that we should not be printing the names of teachers a