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Education Reform
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Reauthorizing ESEA: Four Recommendations to Improve Teaching Effectiveness
Laura S. Hamilton @HamiltonLauraS, Brian M. Stecher, Grace Evans
Feb 3, 2015
The RAND Blog
Policies aimed at boosting teaching effectiveness are a key component of a strong ESEA reauthorization. Addressing discrepancies in teacher quality helps teachers improve, retains effective teachers, and makes the teaching profession an attractive option for those contemplating careers.
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Teacher Effectiveness
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The Challenges of Measuring Effective Teaching
Nov 16, 2016
While educators, policymakers, and parents may agree on the need for more effective teachers, they often use different criteria to judge whether schools are doing their job. Parents have varied priorities for what they want in teachers and in schools.
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Teacher Effectiveness
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Flexibility Is Key in Administration's Call for Teacher Equity Plans
Jennifer L. Steele, John Engberg, Brian M. Stecher
Aug 22, 2014
The RAND Blog
Metrics like teacher experience and licensure reveal little about teachers' impact on student learning. The focus should be on disadvantaged students' access to effective teachers.
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Value-Added Modeling in Education
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A Better Method for Estimating Teacher Performance
Terrance Dean Savitsky
Feb 19, 2013
The RAND Blog
Structured observation protocols for assessing how teachers provide lessons to their students offer the opportunity to provide teachers with valuable feedback on how their practices could be improved, writes Terrance Dean Savitsky.
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Value-Added Modeling in Education
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States Tackle Education's Holy Grail: Measuring a Teacher's Effectiveness
Kata Mihaly
Jan 11, 2013
The RAND Blog
An accurate combined measure of teacher effectiveness would be the gold standard to capture and communicate information about the quality of educators. While the challenges to building such a measure are significant, research can help guide the way.
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Teacher Effectiveness
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How Should We Measure Teacher Effectiveness?
Oct 3, 2012
A new RAND Education website provides objective, nonpartisan insights that can help inform the discussion on how to measure teacher effectiveness.
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