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high value-added (HVA) teachers — those that do the best job of raising students’ scores on standardized tests.

while the new research may identify HVA teachers, it’s still not clear what constitutes good teaching.

There’s one predictor of value-added, which is teacher experience. In the first couple of years, teachers’ value-added goes up quite a bit. Beside that, people who have more-advanced degrees, [have] higher SAT scores, graduated from a better college, are certified versus uncertified — none of these things are strong predictors of value-added.”