Principals tend to pick the best teachers, a study finds

06-02-2010

By Debra Viadero/Education Week

The use of "value-added" data to determine which teachers are good, and which aren't, continues to be a hot topic in education. But, regardless of what you think about using student test scores to judge teachers performance, you have to admit that that it would be interesting to know whether the teachers who rack up high value-added test scores tend to be the same teachers that principals hire, anyway. That's why this study highlighted in the latest edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality Bulletin caught my eye. In it, researchers Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb and colleagues mine some long-term data on 81,000 teachers in New York City schools to find out which teachers apply for transfers and which of those applicants get hired. (more...)

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