Dwayne Lee Bruce

A 3rd grade teacher at Third Street Elementary in 2007

These graphs show a teacher's "value-added" rating based on his or her students' progress on the California Standards Tests in math and English. The Times’ analysis used all valid student scores available for this teacher from the 2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years. The value-added scores reflect a teacher's effectiveness at raising standardized test scores and, as such, capture only one aspect of a teacher's work.

Overall value-added effectiveness

Math effectiveness

English effectiveness

This chart shows where teachers in this effectiveness category fall on a distribution of all teachers’ scores.

Compared with other Los Angeles Unified teachers on the value-added measure of test score improvement, Bruce ranked:

Less effective than average overall.
Less effective than average in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 4 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.
Less effective than average in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 3 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Bruce's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Third Street Elementary, 2007 - 2004
Hillcrest Drive Elementary, 2004 - 2003

Dwayne Bruce's Response:

A very inaccurate rating of some of the finest teachers I know at a school with a 900+ A.P.I. How can you reconcile that with your scores when the state rates this school so high using the same statewide test results? Somewhere, somehow, something is skewed. But you sold a lot of newpapsers and created a lot of controversy with this presentation. You also damaged a lot of extremely professional, experienced and effective teachers. The positive, if I am "less effective" then I am in the company of the finest "less and least effective" teachers in the state. Fortunately I now teach in another state, at another 'highly performing' school full of teachers your review would undoubtedly find to be 'less effective'.

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