This morning I read  an article (not recent) about a California teacher, Rigoberto Ruelas. He was apparently wonderful at what he did, but his perception of his success changed when someone decided it was a good idea to publish the value added scores of the LAUSD teachers in the paper. This performance score is based on student test scores. Mr. Ruelas taught in a what we would call a tough school, and despite that, he made a difference. Unfortunately, to him, his entire career was boiled down to a number that reflected he was less than that difference he actually made. To make matters worse, that number was published for the whole world to see. There are so many things wrong with this. And I'd really like to know who makes the decisions to make individual teacher's classroom test scores public. Who are those decision makers who understand so little about what happens in the classroom?  They don't seem to understand that we don't control all the variables that come in w...