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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

It’s good to be King: More Misguided Rhetoric on the NY State Eval System « School Finance 101

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It’s good to be King: More Misguided Rhetoric on the NY State Eval System

Very little time to write today, but I must comment on this NY Post article on the bias I’ve been discussing in the NY State teacher/principal growth percentile ratings. Sociologist Aaron Pallas of TC and economist Sean Corcoran of NYU express appropriate concerns about the degrees of bias found and reported in the technical report provided by the state’s own consultant developing the models. And this article overall raises concern that these problems were simply blown off. I would/and have put it more bluntly. Here’s my replay of events – quoting the parties involved:
First, the state’s consultants designing their teacher and principal effectiveness measures find that those measures are substantively biased: