I’ve taken the liberty of dreaming up the court transcript ahead of time (using Q for the defense attorney’s questions and A for the plaintiff’s answers). Enjoy this cross-examination, says David B. Cohen, teacher and associate director of the Accomplished California Teachers group, for the Washington Post.
Q: You are demanding that LAUSD [Los Angeles Unified School District] use measures of student growth in teacher evaluations, is that correct?
A: Yes.
Q: And you believe that student test scores are a measure of growth that would reflect teaching quality, correct?
A: Yes.
Q: If LAUSD were to adopt a policy that attributes the growth or lack of growth in student test scores to the student’s teacher, and uses the scores of all students to evaluate the teacher’s effectiveness, you would drop this lawsuit, is that correct?
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