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Gates Foundation study paints bleak picture of teaching quality

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A historic look inside the nation’s classrooms, including some in New York City, painted a bleak picture, according to a report released by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today. The second installment of the foundation’s ambitious Measures of Effective Teaching study, the report focuses on the picture of teaching yielded by five different classroom observation tools.

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#1 by eduK8 posted ago

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The study is the most expansive known examination of instruction in the U.S., reviewing more than 1,000 teachers for this report and nearly 3,000 for the study. Its lead authors are the economists Thomas Kane, of Harvard, and Douglas Staiger of Dartmouth, although more than a dozens researchers contributed to the study.

Gathering Feedback for Teaching
http://metproject.org/downloads/MET_Gathering_Feedback_Research_Paper.pdf

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#2 by eduK8 posted ago

+6 apples

Updated teacher observations key to improvement, report says
http://mathetude.com/story/view/14281.html

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#3 by Buldog posted ago

+5 apples

The Measures of Effective Teaching project has enrolled 3,000 teachers and includes the following sites:

Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Public Schools
Denver Public Schools
Hillsborough County (Fla.) Public Schools
Memphis (Tenn.) City Schools
New York City Public Schools
Dallas Independent School District
Pittsburgh Public Schools

Measures of Effective Teaching (MET)
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/united-states/Pages/measures-of-effective-teaching-fact-sheet.aspx

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