Posts By: Daniel Woodring

Teacher Who Drove Students Away – WSJ. In the Wall Street Journal today is a great letter to the editor, explaining how “in the know” parents get the best teachers for their children. Use the information on our site to make sure you are one of those informed parents. In our elementary school district (a… Read more »

Study Finds “Clustering” Teach For America Instructors Contributed to Math Gains in Miami Schools, but No Spillover Effect on Other Teachers.   Another study highlighting the effectiveness of teachers- this study looked at Teach for America (TFA) Teachers in Miami Schools over the last 5 years and determined that on average students taught by TFA… Read more »

Study: Duval County Public Schools losing effective teachers. Informative study that was in the paper today, nothing really new, but makes key points based on the data in Duval.  Excerpt from the article: ■ Schools serving the most high-need students are disproportionately hampered by ineffective recruitment, selection and staffing. ■ A high percentage of low-performing… Read more »

Teacher tenure: End of the age of dinosaurs | The Economist.   Good article about the importance of measuring and rewarding effective teachers.

Yesterday, a California Judge ruled in Vergara that keeping ineffective teachers in schools, particularly when these teachers are assigned to minority populations, violated the students civil rights to equality of educational opportunity.  This ruling was predicated on how damaging having ineffective teachers is to children. There are several striking quotes in the California-Decision that prove how… Read more »

A few inquiries have been received asking why we are only identifying the top teachers, not also the worst performing.  As Bill Gates has observed in an editorial, we tend to agree that  a public shaming of the worst teachers is not the best way to use teacher performance data. The information we are sharing… Read more »