NYC Educator: Effective Teachers Make Kids Produce

NYC Educator: Effective Teachers Make Kids Produce:

Effective Teachers Make Kids Produce

by NYC Educator

Stuyvesant teacher and blogger Gary Rubenstein had a great op-ed yesterday in the Daily News. He says that any teacher who does not receive a favorable score on "objective measures," or VAM tests must be rated ineffective in NY state. Therefore, though VAM is stated to be 40% of evaluation, it actually counts for 100, unlike any other state that's jumped on the baseless BS bandwagon.

He also says, like Michael Winerip did in more detail, that a good teacher could easily receive a bad rating. I'm now getting email from people who seem to