Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC

Posted by on May 16, 2012 in Daily, Insights on Education | 0 Comment

By Aaron Pallas

For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other shoe to drop. In April 2011, Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, received some startling news. Her score on the Teacher Data Report, the New York City Department of Education’s effort to isolate a teacher’s contribution to her students’performance on New York State’s math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests in grades four through eight, said that 32 percent of seventh-grade math teachers and 0 percent of eighth-grade math teachers scored below her.

She was, according to this report, the worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City, where she has taught since 2007.

Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post.

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