VAM gets Slammed: Teacher Evaluation Not A Game of Chance
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Teachers in New York City have been slammed by the publication of VAM ratings for 18,000 of them. But something new is happening this time, and it was not what proponents of the use of these ratings for evaluative purposes intended or wanted. People are actually delving into the data to see what it shows.
This week Teach For America founder CEO Wendy Kopp became the latest advocate of VAM to denounce the publication of scores in the press, and the associated public scorning of the "bad teachers" they supposedly revealed.
In taking this stand, she joined one of her chief sponsors, Bill Gates. His foundation has spent
