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Teachers Matter
Rethinking How Public Schools Identify, Reward, and Retain Great Educators
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2011
Summary
Most of us have had at least one amazing teacher who has inspired, influenced, or encouraged us to do better, aim higher, or just be more confident. However, most of us have also had at least one teacher who has not met our expectations. In Teachers Matter, education researcher Marcus A. Winters, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, argues that our failure to identify and reward high-quality teachers has been devastating for public school students. The question is how do we sort out the good teachers form the bad? Winters shows the shortcomings of the current system that relies on credentials and longevity and spells out a series of reforms based on results achieved in the classroom. For the first time, standardized test results offer an objective, reliable measure of student proficiency that can be tied to an individual teacher. Sure to be controversial, Winters’s plan will be of interest to the education community, policy makers, and parents concerned about the future of education in America.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1077-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1079-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
154
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CONTENTS No access
Foreword No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: How Data Can Help Improve Public Schools No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 2: How Important Are Teachers? No access Pages 13 - 26
Chapter 3: How Do We Identify Effective Teachers? No access Pages 27 - 50
Chapter 4: How Do We Compensate Public School Teachers? No access Pages 51 - 66
Chapter 5: Improving the Compensation System No access Pages 67 - 92
Chapter 6: Retirement Benefits No access Pages 93 - 104
Chapter 7: Who Should Teach? No access Pages 105 - 124
