Florida’s teachers get 98 percent effectiveness rating despite schools’ struggles | Tampa Bay Times

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…

The below quote is sobering, considering this is the average student. The average student in many of the top-performing countries graduates two to three years ahead of the average high school graduate in the United States. The distance between what our high school graduates know and can do and what their high school graduates know…

Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t. – NYTimes.com. Another reason to be concerned about having excellent k12 teachers, the deficit in k12 student performance compared to international performance, is also present in college graduates. Only 18 percent of American adults with bachelor’s degrees score at the top two levels of numeracy,…

A very interesting study supporting the not surprising anywhere but in education, concept that the ability to pay better teachers more can improve student results.  Quote from the WSJ article is below, and the full study can be found at Unions, Salaries, and The Market for Teachers: Evidence from Wisconsin. Ms. Biasi found that better…

Good afternoon all, wanted to let everyone know that the 2017-18 data is posted and has been live on the website for the past month. Sorry for delay in announcing, just ended up having a very busy October

Flaw punishes Fla. teachers when students earn perfect scores | www.mypalmbeachpost.com. Article appears to point out an anomaly that could impact teachers with students with perfect scores year over year, although as this teacher, Luke Flynt noted, the few students he had that had a perfect score did not impact his effective teacher ranking and,…