(Update in February, 2012: Terrible News: New York To Make Teacher Ratings Public)

Here are additional updates:

Here’s an excellent television interview about it:

Teachers’ Ratings To Go Public: MyFoxNY.com

Why the release of the Teacher data reports and adoption of a new statewide evaluation system will be bad for teachers and bad for kids is from New York City Public School Parents.

Value-added? Not much: what the Teacher Data Reports won’t tell us is by Aaron Pallas.

If Newspapers Are Going To Publish Teachers’ Value-Added Scores, They Need To Publish Error Margins Too is by Matthew Di Carlo.

Bill Gates — Yes, Bill Gates — Calls Making Teaching Ratings Public “A Big Mistake”

Oh boy, here we go again. A New York court ruled today that teacher ratings based on the value-added model can be released to the media with teacher names attached. The teacher’s union is filing an appeal.

This is wrong on so many levels. The L.A. Times originally opened up this can of worms, and you can read about that at The Best Posts About The LA Times Article On “Value-Added” Teacher Ratings. All those posts are directly relevant to this New York situation.

Because those posts say so much about the problem of the value-added model and the terrible idea of releasing the ratings to the public, I don’t anticipate re-inventing the wheel with a very lengthy list here. But I will add pieces that come out and that speak specifically about New York.

Here are my choices for The Best Posts & Articles About The New York Court Decision Releasing Teacher Ratings:

Appeals Court Says NYC Can Release Teacher Ratings is from The Associated Press.

I wrote about this New York case when it first came up last year, and you can find some useful links at that post.

NYC Ordered to Release Teacher Performance Data is from The Wall Street Journal.

Appellate Court Gets It Wrong on NYC Teacher Data is by Rick Hess at Education Week.

Evaluating New York Teachers, Perhaps the Numbers Do Lie is a New York Times article that actually shows the bizarre mathematical equation use to determine a New York City teacher’s value-added score.

Teacher Value-Added Scores: Publish And Perish is from The Shanker Blog. It’s actually about the LA Times fiasco, but I thought I’d include it in case you didn’t have time to review my “The Best…” list on that issue.

You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The “Value-Added” Approach Towards Teacher Evaluation.

Naive To Print Teachers’ Scores, Says TFA Founder is from Alexander Russo, who reports that Teach For America’s Wendy Kopp opposes the public release of teacher ratings. That’s good to hear though, as Alexander mentions, “I wish Kopp had been so clear back a year ago when this was all first being debated — it would have been brave and right of her…”

N.Y. appeals court rules that teacher ratings can be public is from The Los Angeles Times.

New York City teacher evaluations based on students’ test scores can be made public, court rules is from The New York Daily News.

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