This week an Oakland, Calif.-based organization added to the mix, The Education Trust — West published findings of a two-year long study examining the nation’s second-largest school system: Los Angeles Unified School District. The organization took the district’s raw teacher data and created their own value-added model using experts to analyze how teachers affect students and how they are currently dispersed among schools.
The OrganizationThe Education Trust–West (ETW) works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels—pre-kindergarten through college.…