Saturday, August 28, 2010

More on teacher effectiveness

"An L.A. Times analysis, using data largely ignored by LAUSD, looks at which educators help students learn, and which hold them back."

I haven't read the whole series yet, but the premise strikes me as so level-headed it's almost crazy. If we know that the quality of the teacher in the front of the room is the single greatest factor affecting student progress,* and we have the data to see how students progress from year-to-year,** and we don't look at it,*** what does that say about how much we care about student progress?

*and we do.
**ditto.
***ditto again.

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