"They called value-added data the “the gold standard for teacher
accountability” and “a powerful indication of a teacher’s
effectiveness.”
Really?
Not according to Maribeth Whitehouse, a Bronx special education
teacher who scored in the 99th percentile — better than nearly all other
teachers in New York City — on the recently released value-added
Teacher Data Reports (TDRs). Despite her through-the-roof rating,
Whitehouse isn’t hailing the evaluations. Instead, she told the New York Times’ Michael Winerip that the data is “nonsense” — and she’s penning a protest letter with other high-scoring teachers.
Elizabeth Phillips, principal of P.S. 321 in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, said on this blog that
value-added ratings for teachers in her school were “extremely
inaccurate.” Among many other critiques, she cites the case of one
teacher who was rated near the bottom — at the 6th percentile, according
to the TDRs. In reality, Phillips writes, the “teacher in question is
an exceptionally strong teacher by any other measure (parent feedback,
colleague’s opinions, my observations over many years).”"
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