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Opinion By Prof. Aaron Pallas: Blame The Curriculum, Not The Teachers
The claim that teacher quality is the most important school-based factor influencing student achievement rests on statistical models that fail to take into account variations across teachers in the curriculum they teach. And if we never look for curricular variation, we’ll never be able to assess how much it matters in relation to differences among teachers in their effects on student performance.
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