Teacher evaluations should be made public

New Jersey Star Ledger Editorial Board

First, get the data right. Then, hand it over to parents.

As soon as standardized evaluations become available for teachers in New Jersey, they should be made public -- with teacher names attached. That will force districts to make a priority of teacher quality.

Elsewhere, newspapers have filed Freedom of Information requests to get this data released. They're following in the footsteps of the Los Angeles Times, which recently published the names and "value-added" scores of about 6,000 L.A. teachers.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 3, 2010 1:41 AM
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