Submitted by www.theBulldogS... on Wed 8 Jul at 8:37 AM
first of a handful of papers now in the publishing pipeline that are widely seen to be contributing important evidence, both pro and con, regarding the use of value-added assessments, which measure the effectiveness of schools and teachers by measuring the gains that their students make on standardized tests over the course of a school year.
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