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Current Strategies Won’t Solve Our Teacher Quality Challenges
In our new report, Opportunity at the Top: How America’s Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: “Will our nation’s bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom?” We ran the numbers and discovered a disappointing answer: No. Even if these reforms were wildly successful, most classrooms still would not have great teachers.
Fixing School Funding
School finance reform continues to light up debates whenever it arises. The Holy Grail here is a system that gets incentives right, allocating funding in ways that encourage schools and districts to do what’s best for kids, AND addresses the immense equity challenge posed by the various yawning achievement gaps.
3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best
Instead of just trying to recruit more great teachers, what if schools chose to reach more children with the great teachers they already have?
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