The L. A. Times release
of teacher performance data garnered better than a quarter of the 446 votes for worst education development of the year, and Race to the Top came in a solid second with 18 % of the vote.
Nber Working Paper Series Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data
She said No Child Left
Behind teacher performance data is seldom used «to ensure that kids of color get a fair share of whatever «good» is determined to be.»
As for second place, four developments came close to sharing the red ribbon — the use of stimulus dollars to avoid layoffs (14 %), Florida Governor Charlie Crist's veto of merit pay and tenure reform (14 %), the release of Waiting for Superman and other high - profile movies about school reform (13 %), and the L. A. Times release
of teacher performance data (12 %).
The teacher performance data battle is coming down to the wire.