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Tying Teacher Evaluation to Student Achievement If you throw this nonsense up with a positive headline often enough, it will gain near-total credibility in the mind of the public. Most don't read past the first paragraph. That someone with knowledge of just how flawed value-added models are and how inappropriate for education would lend her name to this is embarrassing. It's also indicative of how the campaign to gain acceptance for yet another business-based, privatization and union-busting notion is going to go. I don't care if Randi Weingarten and the ghost of Alfred Shanker appear on global television to endorse this sort of swill: it's still swill.It pretty much doesn't matter what the article says: Education Week has stacked the deck in the headline. We need to keep pointing out this bias. Education Week is a tool of its funders. Another commentator on this article observed: The fact remains that the teachers with the highest test scores are the ones who cheat on the test, followed by the ones who game the test, then the ones who teach to the test, etc. These are the worst teachers in our schools. What they really teach our kids is that it's good to lie, cheat, and steal.Moral: Don't read the articles; just read the headlines and the comments. — Michael Paul Goldenberg comment |
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