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Long-Term Impact of Good Teachers
Does having a good teacher have long-term effects on student outcomes? The answer, according to a sophisticated study tracking over 1 million students from a large urban school district from fourth grade into adulthood, is a resounding affirmative answer. The authors … Continue reading
What Works: Teachers are Paid in Advance and Asked to Give Back the Money if Their Students do not Improve Sufficiently
Pay for performance as an educational reform initiative has exhibited equivocal results (see here and here). Now an interesting piece of research demonstrates it might work with a twist. The twist is teachers are paid bonuses in advance and asked to give back … Continue reading
‘Pay for Performance’ Research is Equivocal
Among many proposed educational reform initiatives being debated “pay for performance” elicits strong advocates and equally strong critics. Does PFP produce the desired results? What does the research suggest? In a review of the literature on this subject the Education … Continue reading
Three New Posts on Education’s Key Role in Economic Growth and Personal Earnings
Today I uploaded two new posts on the key role education plays in aggregate economic growth (posts 1 & 2 below) and a third post explaining the impact education plays in understanding the variation in earnings (post 3 below) . … Continue reading
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How to Increase Economic Output by $112 Trillion!
Are you interested in improving economic growth and personal income in the U.S.? Here’s one way — good teaching. Take a look at the following graph. Analyzing the impact of good teachers (based on student achievement) and the impact of … Continue reading
Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching
Policies associated with improving educational outcomes are hotly debated among educational leaders, legislative bodies and in the public. One idea attracting a great amount of attention is “pay for performance.” Fortunately, a very robust study examining the effects of pay … Continue reading