Teachers

Reuters/Jim Young - Teacher Jenna Rosenberg speaks to her first grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013

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Who is an Effective Teacher? Improving Teacher Evaluation in K-12 Education

June 12, 2013, Thomas J. Kane

Thomas Kane tackles the difficult question of how to define an “effective” teacher and argues that the “better than the average novice” is a threshold worth considering.

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Education Technology: The Next Generation

March 20, 2013
In the News

Some of the teamwork and collegiality that charter staffs experience is because they see their administrator-teacher relations as simple human interactions, rather than as the interactions of management and labor.
September 29, 2012, Tom Loveless, Washington Post
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Poor Students Can’t Afford Teacher Strike

September 10, 2012, Beth Akers and Matthew M. Chingos | comments
Past Event

Data Analytics and Web Dashboards in the Classroom

September 4, 2012
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Education Technology, Distance Learning & the Innovative American Classroom

July 17, 2012
Book

Digital Schools
How Technology Can Transform Education

2012, Darrell M. West
Opinion | Los Angeles Times

Long-Stagnant Teacher Compensation Needs to be Upgraded

November 14, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney
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Education Technology: Revolutionizing Personalized Learning and Student Assessment

October 6, 2011
Opinion | The Los Angeles Times

Online Teaching's Disconnect

September 28, 2011, John Villasenor
Opinion | The Hamilton Project

Are We Short-Changing our Future? The Economic Imperative of Attracting Great Teachers

September 22, 2011, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney