Not exact matches
Bloomberg noted that the courts
last year, in response to a Post lawsuit, ordered the city to disclose its current
Teacher Data Reports.
A New York appeals court ruled
last year that a less comprehensive form of
teacher evaluations used by New York City's Department of Education — known as Teacher Data Reports — must be disclosed under the state's Freedom of Informati
teacher evaluations used by New York City's Department of Education — known as
Teacher Data Reports — must be disclosed under the state's Freedom of Informati
Teacher Data Reports — must be disclosed under the state's Freedom of Information Law.
One
last example: Because of the standards and accountability movement that began in the 1980s and extended through today, public schools publicly
report a wide array of
data related to test scores, poverty rates,
teacher characteristics, and much, much more.
Last, the red line is a relatively rough cut from the National Center for Education Statistics, which
reports that 16 percent of
teachers change jobs every year (this estimate is probably too high, but it's another
data point to consider).
As Dropout Nation noted
last week in its
report on
teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying
teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score
data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.
In New York City, some of the
teachers whose scores were published
last week received ratings based on multiple years of
data, according to a 23 - page technical
report describing the city's statistical formula.
A more detailed description can be found elsewhere.11, 12 The current study utilizes
data on ACEs
reported in the mother's 5 - year follow - up interview (which took place when the child was 61 months old, on average), as well as
data on
teacher -
reported school performance in the
last month of the child's kindergarten year.