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The obvious policy solution is more pay for good teachers, more dismissals for weak teachers.
With a stronger evaluation system, tenure no longer mattered and weak teachers could be pushed out.
Mr. Logan said he hoped it would help pinpoint weak teachers and problem schools.
They were alarmed that Carver, whose students had among the lowest reading scores in the city, had for years been a dumping ground for weak teachers.
And, increasingly, we're getting solid evidence of what reforms may help: teacher evaluations based on student performance, higher pay and prestige for good teachers, dismissals for weak teachers.
While he stressed that the quality of the teacher was more important than the size of the class, Mr. Walcott did not talk about taking more aggressive measures to remove weak teachers from the system.
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The patchwork quilt of weak teacher certification requirements needs to be replaced with a national certification program.
But neither of these things are true: "Anyone can play havoc with a weak teacher – behaviour is never a given".
But a landmark new research paper underscores that the difference between a strong teacher and a weak teacher lasts a lifetime.
William Sanders, a statistician studying Tennessee teachers with a colleague, found that a student with a weak teacher for three straight years would score, on average, 50 percentile points behind a similar student with a strong teacher for those years.
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