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Teaching Credentials Do Not Correlate with Teaching Effectiveness

Posted in Education, Entrepreneurs on Sep 19th, 2011

Marcus Winters contributes to the growing literature demonstrating that K12 teacher effectiveness has nothing to do with their credentials: Modern research on teacher quality makes clear that the factors used to determine a teacher’s compensation tell us little to nothing about how well the teacher will perform in the classroom. That consistent finding has (or […]

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Maybe They Can Lie About Their Graduation Rates Too!

Posted in Education on Jan 2nd, 2011

This from a school district that cannot graduate more than 50% of its students: In the Rochester City School District, students can get every test question wrong. They can skip every day of school. They can do no homework. But they will automatically get a grade of 50 percent. … The district has never made […]

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