Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 3: The trouble with grading teachers
Critics of the rise in alternative and for-profit programs will claim teacher quality, and student learning, suffers when people are fast-tracked into the classroom without comprehensive training. But it\u2019s hard to know for certain whether that\u2019s true. The problem is, despite decades of trying, we haven\u2019t agreed on how to measure teacher quality. There\u2019s a lot of research that shows having a good teacher makes a huge difference in the outcomes of students, but it\u2019s much less clear what makes a teacher good.
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