Should value-added models account for poverty?
This was written by Sarah Garland and produced by The Hechinger Report, a non-profit, non-partisan education-news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University. This post underscores strong disagreement over value-added methods of evaluating teachers, which use student standardized test scores to assess educators. The controversy is deep enough to give pause to anyone who thinks these formulas are acceptable to use in a high-stakes fashion to evaluate anybody.
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