Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings (via Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain - NYTimes.com)
..according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years. The paper, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, all economists..
Posted January 10, 2012 at 6:46pm in teachers teaching education early-childhood scores testing schooling
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