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Study critical of teacher layoffs
A study of Washington state teachers found that deciding layoffs based solely on who has the least seniority has a significant effect on students' ability to learn. The study comes as tens of thousands of teachers around the country stand to lose their...Tags: School Examinations, Collective Contract, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, American Civil Liberties Union
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U.S. schools chief endorses release of teacher data
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that parents have a right to know if their children's teachers are effective, endorsing the public release of information about how well individual teachers fare at raising their students' test scores....Tags: School Examinations, Teachers, Standardized Testing, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace
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Teachers union agrees to reopen talks on evaluations
The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said Saturday that he has accepted city school district officials' proposal to reopen negotiations over teacher evaluations but stopped short of saying whether a method tying teacher reviews to their students'...Tags: School Examinations, Standardized Testing, Teaching and Learning, Teachers Unions, Schools
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N.Y. can release data on teachers
The New York City school system can publicly release performance ratings for more than 12,000 teachers based on their students' test scores, a Manhattan judge ruled Monday, in what would be the largest such disclosure in the country. The interests of...Tags: Lawyers, School Examinations, Career and Workplace, Justice System, Teachers Unions
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Teachers blast L.A. Times for releasing effectiveness rankings
National and local teachers unions sharply criticized The Times on Sunday when the newspaper published a database of about 6,000 third- through fifth-grade city school teachers ranked by their effectiveness in raising student test scores. "It is the...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, School Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Newspapers, Christiane Amanpour
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Union urges Times boycott
The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a "massive boycott" of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.
"You're...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, School Examinations, Teachers, Demonstration, Teaching and Learning
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Teacher leader opposes database
The head of the American Federation of Teachers said Wednesday that she believed parents have a right to know how well their children's teachers are rated on employee evaluations, but strongly disagreed with The Times' decision to publish data showing how...Tags: School Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Newspapers, Labor Legislation
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How to fix a system that one teacher calls 'a joke'
Steve Franklin, a middle school teacher in L.A. Unified, had some issues with The Times series on teacher evaluations, so he fired off a letter to the editor. It read, in part: "When somebody can prove that high test scores produce good citizens,...Tags: Teachers Unions, Human Interest, School Examinations, Academic Progress, Standardized Testing
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Teachers respond
On Sunday, The Times made public a database of "value-added" ratings for about 6,000 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers. Rankings from "least effective" to "most effective" were assigned to teachers based on an analysis of whether they...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, School Examinations, Language, Teachers, Arts and Culture
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How the teachers were evaluated
The Times used a statistical approach called value-added to estimate the effectiveness of teachers in Los Angeles schools. The approach has been around since the 1970s but has recently grown more popular -- and controversial -- as it is used for...Tags: Human Interest, School Examinations, Schools, Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning
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U.S. schools chief to push disclosure
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will call for all states and school districts to make public whether their instructors are doing enough to raise students' test scores and to share other school-level information with parents, according to a text of...Tags: School Examinations, Teachers Unions, Schools, Academic Progress, Bill Clinton
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New York to release teachers' ratings
The New York City school system announced Wednesday that it will release ratings for nearly 12,000 teachers based on student test scores, potentially giving the public an unprecedented window into the effectiveness of instructors at the nation's largest...Tags: School Examinations, Censorship, Career and Workplace, Unions, Teachers Unions
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