Here is additional smart and pithy commentary on the current value-added conversation that I wasn't able to incorporate into yesterday's post or have only discovered since.- Dr. Douglas Harris - "Not By Value Added Alone" (The Blog of Harvard Education Publishing)
- Dr. Aaron Pallas - "Value-added measures: The cardinal rule and the cardinal sin" (A Sociological Eye on Education)
- Stephen Sawchuk - "Some Scholars Slam Value-Added for Teacher Accountability" (Teacher Beat/Education Week)
- Jay Mathews - "America's Best Teacher and the L.A. Times" (Class Struggle/Washington Post)
- Dr. Daniel Willingham - "3 Key Factors in Teacher Evaluation" (The Answer Sheet/Washington Post)
- Sherman Dorn - "Please leave your magic numbers on the magic carpet with your magic wand" (Sherman Dorn)
- Bill Tucker - "My Value-Added Number" (Quick and the Ed)
- John Thompson - "High-Ranking Teachers Ignore Pacing Standards" (This Week In Education)
- Walt Gardner - "Why Not Name and Shame Teachers?" (Walt Gardner's Reality Check/Education Week)
- Claus von Zastrow - "The LA Times Goes Astray" (Public School Insights/Learning First Alliance)
- Alan Borsuk - "Where newspaper goes in rating teachers, others soon will follow" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Andy Rotherham - "LA Story" (Eduwonk)
