What some teachers don't want you to learn

John Diaz

Knowledge is power, but it is not always welcome. The Los Angeles Times just completed an extensive study of how individual teachers have fared at raising their students' math and English test scores in the state's most populous city. The raw data have been available to the L.A. Unified School District for years, but it never bothered to crunch those numbers, let alone share them with parents. The Times has pledged to publish its ratings of 6,000 elementary school instructors.

Reaction of the local teachers union? It has called for a "massive boycott" of the Times.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 22, 2010 1:05 AM
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