An excerpt: The article itself is slightly more nuanced, demonstrating that millionaires and billionaires without education experience are behind many attacks on teachers and eventually—in the second-to-last paragraph, as FAIR points out—getting around to acknowledging that a lot of research shows that test scores arent a good measure of teacher quality. Labeling Time an embarrassing internet troll, Jeff Bryant reviews some of that research: Education technology whiz Scott McLeod corralled the pertinent research regarding this topic on his blog some time ago. He concluded, While it seems to make intuitive sense to evaluate teachers based on students’ standardized test scores (aka using ‘value-added measures,’ or VAM), in practice it doesn’t seem to work very well. At this time, researchers do not support the incorporation of student test scores into teacher evaluations except in carefully-designed, low-stakes pilot experiments. [...] As a recent commentary by law school professor Erwin Chemerinsky in the New York Daily News explained, A study published in the Harvard Educational Review found a significant positive relationship between rates of unionization (and accompanying job security) and student scores on the SAT and ACT. Every year, the states with the highest student performance are those with robust protections for teachers – places like Maryland and Massachusetts.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:25:57 +0000
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