NYC Public School Parents: The 40% solution? NYT editors parrot the Billionaire Boys Club and ignore the research

NYC Public School Parents: The 40% solution? NYT editors parrot the Billionaire Boys Club and ignore the research:

The 40% solution? NYT editors parrot the Billionaire Boys Club and ignore the research

by Leonie Haimson

Today, in an editorial, the NY Times inveighs against the recent court decision that held that the new teacher evaluation system should be based 20 percent rather than 40 percent on state test scores, as mandated by a law passed by the Legislature.

Somehow NY Times editors are under the delusion that teacher evaluation system based 40 percent on state test scores, which themselves have been absurdly manipulated over the last several years, would be a more “rigorous” system. They even appear to agree that if any teacher did poorly on the that one portion of the system for one year only, he or she would deserve the lowest of ratings – as the Commissioner King would prescribe – in a perversion of the entire notion of multiple measures.

It is sad that none of the research showing the fallibility and potentially destructive effects of such a simplistic rating