Fire first, ask questions later? Comments on Recent Teacher Effectiveness Studies « School Finance 101

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Fire first, ask questions later? Comments on Recent Teacher Effectiveness Studies

by schoolfinance101

Yesterday was a big day for big new studies on teacher evaluation. First, there was the New York Times report on the new study by Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff. Second, there was the release of the second part of theGates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching project.

There’s still much to digest. But here’s my first shot, based on first impressions of these two studies (with very little attention to the Gates study)

The second – Gates MET study – didn’t have a whole lot of punchline to it, but rather spent a great deal of time exploring alternative approaches to teacher evaluation and the correlates of those approaches to a) each other