Value Added, and FERPA
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Until proponents of Value Added teacher ratings can explain how Mark Berndt was a solid educator, the use of Value Added rankings as part of any teacher evaluation plan is pathetically, harmfully myopic.
According to the logic of Value Added, Mark Berndt was actually improving - look at how his Value Add in math climbed from 2009.
On a related note, Mark Berndt created a data trail on the students in his classroom. How much of that data trail is still intact? What would a FERPA review (pdf download) of that data look like? What recourse does a family have when a teacher is removed from the classroom? If a person isn't fit to be teaching are they still fit to be contributing to the story of how a student learns?
