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Thursday, August 21, 2014

8-21-14 Jersey Jazzman - The Myth of The Burned-Out Senior Teacher: Part II

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The Myth of The Burned-Out Senior Teacher: Part II
In my last post, I questioned the idea of the senior, burned-out teacher being a major policy concern, simply on the basis of the fact that there really aren't that many senior teachers to begin with.But what does the literature say about relative teacher effectiveness late in a career? What do we know about teachers who enter the late stages of their professions, and their effect on student outco


8-19-14 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: The Myth of The Burned-Out Senior Teacher: Part INon-teacher David Boies is absolutely convinced that we are plagued by old, bad, burned-out teachers; that's why we need to get rid of tenure, see, and replace them with young, inexperienced, poorly-trained teachers, like the ones at TFA, the vast majority of whom will leave teaching after three years. Makes complete sense...Non-teac