Strauss: The Education Department’s strange new report on teaching

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January 20th, 2014 by schoolbound

One of the most controversial issues in public education today is the use of “value-added measures” to evaluate teachers and principals. What these measures, known as VAM, purportedly do is to calculate the “value” of a teacher in student achievement through complicated formulas that use student standardized test scores as Read more

Source: washingtonpost.com