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Measuring good teaching by the smile-o-meter
Is it true that "the person doing the smiling is the person doing the learning"?
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 51 min read
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Is there a good-teacher gap? Maybe not
Measuring teacher quality is tricky, and that makes it hard to tell if there's a good-teacher gap, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli in...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 27, 20242 min read
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Top marks for low expectations: 'Rate your teacher' surveys could backfire
Asking students to rate their teachers is a dubious way to evaluate teachers' competence, writes Vladimir Kogan, a Ohio State political...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 8, 20242 min read
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It's easier to become a teacher, but ...
States are dropping licensing tests to qualify more teachers, write Hannah Putnam and Heather Peske of the National Council on Teacher...
Joanne Jacobs
May 1, 20232 min read
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Merit pay for teachers can work
Linking teacher pay to performance -- not just to seniority and post-college credits -- was the center of education reform in the 2010s,...
Joanne Jacobs
May 1, 20231 min read
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