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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Moneyball comes to public school teachers

New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is trying to mimic the success of the Oakland A's professional baseball team in the 90s with his public school teachers - that is if the union doesn't stop him. Klein's new initiative is based off of unbiasing crunching numbers that he calls "value-added" data to sort out differences among teachers.

Check out the entire article at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/02/06/2008-02-06_what_public_schools_can_learn_from_recen-3.html

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