Research has shown time and again that experience matters in good teaching. What it hasn’t shown is that every experience matters equally. In fact, a teacher’s first few years on the job are by far the most important, and it has been demonstrated repeatedly that the vast majority of teaching improvement comes in the first [...]
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A Question for Teachers Unions
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to ask my teachers union friends in the edublogosphere: Why do you support tying salary increases to Master’s degrees, when all the research says that Master’s degrees do your members no good?
It makes a certain kind of sense for unions to support things like seniority raises, tenure, bumping rights, generous [...]


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