“Value Added” is wrong, not funny
The UFT took a good ad with the wrong graphic yesterday. We were right to push back, that was necessary. But not with this:
1. It is not NYC’s Value Added formula. It is a generic Value Added formula. Not sure if I’m right? The UFT calls it a “sample”.
2. This formula, with even more terms and symbols and subscripts and Greek letters, this formula on steroids – is what the UFT and NYSUT are helping New York State develop.
3. I can read this. I can teach you to, if you’d like. It’s hard, but not that hard. But it’s probably not worth it.
4. We are teachers, dammit. We don’t make fun of learning or knowledge. Or at least most of us don’t.
5. This great big formula is designed to see what difference each teacher makes “on the test.” That is wrong. Completely wrong. There is much more