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In an op-ed piece that appeared in the August 28 issue of the New York Daily News,<\/em> well-known education scholar and author (and self-identified union critic) Frederick M. Hess blasted the recent decision by the New York state appellate court that will allow New York City to release student achievement data disaggregated on a teacher-by-teacher basis.\u00a0 Hess\u2019 opinion supports that of United Federation of Teachers (UFT) president Michael Mulgrew, who has promised that UFT will challenge the ruling.<\/p>\n

The data under dispute include stats on 12,000 fourth through eighth grade teachers whose students have taken the state reading and math assessments.\u00a0 Using a value-added model, \u201cteachers across the system could theoretically be ranked, from first to last, based on student gains on the reading and math tests.\u201d\u00a0 Several media organizations had sued for access to the individual teacher data, which was granted by the NY state court and held up in the recent appeal decision.\u00a0 The majority decision wrote,<\/p>\n

“Balancing the privacy interests at stake against the public interest in disclosure of the information … we conclude that the requested reports should be disclosed. Indeed, the reports concern information of a type that is of compelling interest to the public, namely, the proficiency of public employees in the performance of their job duties.”<\/em>
\nHess disagrees with this analysis, for four reasons.\u00a0 First, there is no agreed-upon \u201cright\u201d way to create a value-added model, making the tool subjective.\u00a0 Second, in situations where students are pulled out for specialized instruction, value-added measures don\u2019t accurately isolate and measure the impact of a specific teacher\u2014the results can be affected by the quality of the specialized instructors, for better or for worse.<\/p>\n

Third, Hess notes that in this case there is \u201ca profound failure to recognize the difference between responsible management and this sort of public transparency.\u201d\u00a0 He points out that it is important and makes sense for taxpayers to know where their money is going and that leaders receiving tax money should be reporting on organizational performance; however, it is not sensible to report to the public how many tickets a particular police officer issues or release the performance reviews of national guardsmen.\u00a0 The latter isn\u2019t practiced because \u201cwe recognize that these data are imperfect, limited measures and that using them sensibly requires judgment.\u00a0 Sensible judgment becomes much more difficult when decisions are made in the glare of the media spotlight.<\/p>\n

Finally, he acknowledges that NYC teachers have a right to be upset.\u00a0 When the Teacher Data Initiative (the project that began the data collection and reporting that is under consideration here) was launched in 2008 by former Chancellor Joel Klein, teachers were assured that the data collection was simply to help improve teacher performance and that the reports were \u201cnot to be used for evaluation purposes.\u201d\u00a0 However, in 2010 Klein shifted positions and supported the idea that the reports, including teachers\u2019 names, should be publicly available under the Freedom of Information Act.\u00a0 As Hess writes, \u201cYou can hardly blame teachers for feeling sucker-punched.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read the full article, please visit http:\/\/www.aei.org\/article\/104061<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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