Teacher quality trumps class size
Would you prefer your child to be in small class taught by a mediocre teacher or a slightly larger class taught by an excellent teacher? Small class size is overrated, writes Larry Sand, president of...
View ArticleIrreplaceable — and underappreciated
Principals don’t try to retain excellent teachers, concludes The Irreplaceables. TNTP analyzed teacher retention in four urban school districts: The top 20 percent of teachers, based on value-added...
View ArticleD.C. fires 3% of teachers
Washington D.C. schools fired 98 teachers for low performance on the district’s evaluation system. That represents less than 3 percent of teachers in D.C. schools. By contrast, 988 teachers — about a...
View ArticleAustralia: Teachers don’t have to be smart
Teachers don’t have to be smart as long as they’re enthusiastic, says Australian School Education Minister Peter Garrett. “It is not necessarily a fact that someone who is academically smart makes a...
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