The Washington Post Calls Out the LA Times' Methodology In Teacher Series

The LA Times’ current series on teacher effectiveness, and the resulting call for a boycott from LA largest teachers’ union, are drawing national attention–not all of it good. The Washington Post just published a lengthy blog post from University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, which concludes “The writers of the Times article are either uninformed or disingenuous about the status of the value-added measures.”