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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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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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