By Amy Davidson Sorkin February 27 , 2012How useful are the city's newly released teacher-evaluation scores?
How useful are the city's newly released teacher-evaluation scores?
Greater priority should be given to releasing teachers who wish to attend quality assured professional development programmes.
Releasing teachers' names and ratings, the union's petition to the court notes, could irreparably damage the professional reputations of thousands of public school teachers.
But when the department faced one of its most contentious decisions, whether to release teacher performance data to the public, Mr. Walcott was conflicted, expressing concerns about denigrating teachers.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who was president of New York City's teachers' union, said that while she did not always agree with Mr. Cerf's views on teacher accountability, they were able to reach agreements on, for instance, not releasing teacher data to the media.
At the very least, the reanalysis underscores the invalidity of extending causal analysis to individual teachers, and the folly of releasing teacher names and their rankings.
The shield bill, whose passage 118-17 in the Assembly prompted Bloomberg's announcement, was introduced by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a compromise on the divisive issue of whether to release teacher's value added scores, the New York Daily News reports.
The city released its teachers rankings in February after defeating a teachers' union lawsuit to keep the reports private.
Berliner was excited at how much creativity was released when teachers and children were free from the constrictions of the curriculum.
