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THIS IS IMPORTANT - Court in NY Paves the Way to Release Data Linking Teachers With Students' Test Scores

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Monday's ruling by a judge in New York paves the way for detailed information to be released about how individual teachers affect students' test scores. The ruling would allow the New York City school district to release performance rankings for more than 12,000 of its teachers to the media outlets that have requested the information. The local teachers union, which sought to block release of the records, is appealing the decision, but if the information is released, it will be the largest such case in the United States. Pictured is a Bronx second grader doing an exercise last year.

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NY Second Grader Does Exercise (2010), by Newscom


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teaching scores are often a false read by Tom Durham on Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:26:43 AM
It depends on who's reading the test results, Tom. by GLloyd Rowsey on Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:30:29 AM
Value-Added Modeling by reasonableperson on Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:02:01 PM
"Value-Added Modeling" sound like by GLloyd Rowsey on Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:02:47 PM