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The battle over New York City?s worst teachers

By Alliance Alert

New Yorker: "By now, most serious studies on education reform have concluded that the critical variable when it comes to kids succeeding in school isn?t money spent on buildings or books but, rather, the quality of their teachers. A study of the Los Angeles public schools published in 2006 by the Brookings Institution concluded that 'having a top-quartile teacher rather than a bottom-quartile teacher four years in a row would be enough to close the black-white test score gap.' But, in New York and elsewhere, holding teachers accountable for how well they teach has proved to be a frontier that cannot be crossed."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).