Education Department’s own Etch-a-Sketch - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: "It’s discomfiting enough that warnings from respected researchers – including RAND and Princeton’s Educational Testing Service – that value-added measures are far too unreliable to be used in high-stakes situations, haven’t resonated. They didn’t prevent the secretary from promoting the release of Los Angeles teacher scores in 2010. Even more so that he continues to defend his stance there and seems not to notice the clear damage to California’s teachers’ reputations and morale that followed.
Most troubling of all, however, is his convenient failure to acknowledge that this recent about-face on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s high-profile battle with New York City’s teachers is just that.
Duncan’s support, until now, for Bloomberg and former New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein’s position was public knowledge – it was reported in Gothamschools and elsewhere. As recently as March 2, he sat next to Bloomberg at American University and nodded as the mayor angrily defended the decision against Gates’ criticism of it."
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