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Study: Student scores, teacher's college linked

How well public-school students perform can be traced, in part, to where their teachers went to college, according to a new study by the University of Washington. But the study's director cautions that the findings are but one measure of effective teacher-teaching.
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The academic progress of public-school students can be traced, in part, to where their teachers went to college, according to new research by the University of Washington Center for Education Data & Research.
But the center's director, Dan Goldhaber, cautioned that the study is just a first step toward determining what kind of training — not where the training occurred — best prepares teachers for excellence in the classroom.
Even so, it's the kind of information U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan would like every school to have access to, and that's why he recently announced a new program to use federal dollars