NY’s Klein on release of rankings: Rank liar.
NY Chancellor and rank liar, Joel Klein.
Juan Gonzalez of the NY Daily News points out that NY schools Chancellor Joel Klein is a lying SOB. Well, Gonzalez doesn’t say that.
I do.
Threatening to release to the press the so-called VAM rankings of 12,000 NY school teachers, Klein pretends that he’s being forced to because of a Freedom of Information Act suit.
Bullshit.
“Don’t buy it,” says Gonzalez.
Klein couldn’t wait to release the names, along with his arcane rating system that claims to show how much “value” each teacher added to the reading and math scores of their pupils.
Action by the teachers union has delayed the release of the data until the end of November.
Leonie Haimison of Class Size Matters quotes the researchers who designed the ratings as saying that they should not be used to evaluate teachers.
Their support of the “value added model,” those consultants said in an Aug. 29, 2008, report, was “limited to the technical quality of the work” and to its potential to assist “in teaching and learning.”
They specifically refused to endorse “any particular use \[of the method\] for accountability, promotion or tenure” of teachers.
“Test scores,” they warned, “capture only one dimension of teacher effectiveness, and . . . are not intended as a summary measure of teacher performance.”
What system can we use to rank the lying Joel Klein? How does he compare to other liars? Not well.
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I’d argue that Gonzalez didn’t use those words, but said it just the same. However, right though you both are, this will be used as a hammer against the union. The NY Post is on a rampage. It was short-sighted of Weingarten to agree to this. Given our history with Tweed, even by 2008, this act was entirely predictable.