Monday, December 31, 2012

Top Teacher Beat Posts for 2012 - Teacher Beat - Education Week

Top Teacher Beat Posts for 2012 - Teacher Beat - Education Week:


Top Teacher Beat Posts for 2012

Readers, it's time to take a look at what items most caught your attention here at the Teacher Beat blog over the past year.
We'll run through them in reverse.
#10: Chicago teachers voted to end a seven-day-long strike as described in this, our 10th most read item of the year. The move paved the way for the ratification of a tentative agreement.
#9: It makes plain old common sense, but now empirical research tentatively supports the idea that teachers who seem to be effective in one school setting continue to do well when they transfer to other schools, according to a research study I reported on in July. Caveat: The specific magnitude of such teachers' effect scores do differ,