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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Anthony Cody Weighs in on VAM in Teacher Education

Since we reviewed his latest book earlier in the week, have been influenced greatly by the bulk of his writing, and have been hammering home all the negative aspects of VAM in any educational setting, Edustank staff thinks it only fitting to link directly to his just-published thoughts on VAM in teacher education.

Here's his thesis: "When the history of modern education reform is written one of the most shameful chapters will be the continued embrace of various forms of “Value Added Models” for purposes of measuring the effectiveness of teachers in raising test scores."

 Click *here* to read words of wisdom. Note also Cody asks as we've been asking here: That you take advantage of the comments period at Regulations.gov to let officials know we do not want nor need this new set of bad ideas.

(Un-memed AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais snagged *here*)


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