Vince Marsala: Politicians are Wrecking Our Schools - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Vince Marsala: Politicians are Wrecking Our Schools - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: "In 1991, New York released its first set of coronary-bypass mortality numbers for cardiac surgeons, and in a 2005 report by New York Magazine, an astonishing 79 percent of doctors who do angioplasty said anonymously the mortality statistics discouraged them from taking on risky patients. Now, some want to evaluate and publish - like the New York Times and LA Times recently did - teachers value added scores which have up to a 53 percent margin of error. Doing so will place the test score between the child and teacher, just like the mortality rating was between the doctor and patient. Instead of working with disabled, non-English speaking, or needy students, educators may avoid them."

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