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Saturday, March 3, 2012

The last I’ll post on teacher data reports | Outside the Cave

The last I’ll post on teacher data reports | Outside the Cave:

The last I’ll post on teacher data reports

I’m just about ready to move on to writing about more important and pressing topics than the release of teacher data reports, but wanted to share a couple more great pieces that point out flaws in the reports, and their release. What all three of these pieces share — and every piece I’ve read in the New York Times, Daily News, and Post have lacked — is actual statistical analysis. This is what we call rigor! Shame on New York’s largest papers for lazy reporting.

Gary Rubinstein is brilliant once again:

Out of 665 teachers who taught two different grade levels of the same subject in 2010, the average