In the fight to eliminate educational inequality, teachers matter most.
The New Teacher Project works with school districts and states nationwide to ensure that poor and minority students get outstanding teachers.
To Improve STEM Education, Washington State Must Focus on Teacher Effectiveness
A new TNTP study on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in Washington finds that an inadequate supply of STEM teachers and ineffective teacher evaluation and support policies throughout the state are contributing to low student achievement and a widening achievement gap in math and science.
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February 2010
More than any other variable in education, teachers matter. But we have never identified excellent teachers in any reliable, objective way. Instead, we tend to ascribe their gifts to some mystical quality that we can recognize and revere—but not replicate. The great teacher serves as a hero, but never as a lesson.
