NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Donald Martin, superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District in North Carolina, which has been using value-added analysis in evaluating its teachers ...
So-called "value-added analysis" is being used all over the country as a measurement of public school-teacher performance. It is strongly promoted by President Obama's Race to the Top in education. LA ...
When the teacher's body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Rigoberto Ruelas' death became a flash point, drawing his city's largest newspaper ...