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Paying teachers for performance is working in DC and Dallas
Pay teachers for performance and taking hard jobs, not just for years in the classroom.
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 172 min read
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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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