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			<title>Rating Teacher Performance with Value-Added Analysis</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Really interesting article, first of a series, in the L.A. Times...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Really interesting article, first of a series, in the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teachers-value-20100815,0,2695044.story?page=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">L.A. Times</a> reporting what they were able to do with information from public records requests.  Although their teachers union is in a frenzy, shooting the messenger by calling for a boycott of the newspaper, I suspect this is how all teachers will be rated soon.</div>

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