Better Teachers Needed Ed Glaeser does excellent economics work that often translates into puzzlingly disappointing op-eds, but this column on the vital importance teacher quality and offering a few ideas about how to get it is spot-on. President-Elect Obama has often spoken along the same lines as Glaeser in terms of paying teachers more, and then screening out ineffective ones more rigorously. Obviously, the devil is in the details, but it’s very important for the long-run fate of the economy to see some movement on this.
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November 9th, 2008 § 1
Thanks Tim, a very good piece with great thoughts and focus, but I agree about the devil in the details. Here’s one: linking teacher performance to student test scores sounds so good to the lay person, but it is a very sticky wicket indeed. It’s way too easy and simplistic an answer to getting quality teachers. – Mark