One Reason I Am Glad I No Longer Teach.

A ‘value-added’ travesty for an award-winning teacher

Posted by Valerie Strauss on December 3, 2012 at 12:22 pm

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(By Brian Kuger)

Here’s the crazy story of Kim Cook, a teacher at Irby Elementary, a K-2 school which feeds into Alachua Elementary, for grades 3-5, just down the road in Alachua, Fla. She was recently chosen by the teachers at her school as their Teacher of the Year.

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