Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings,
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“That test scores help you get more education, and that more education has an earnings effect
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metrics hold teachers accountable and can help improve the educational outcomes of millions of children.
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This article discusses how teachers who work to improve students test scores are leaving a lasting impression on their students. The more education they are getting by "good teachers" increases the students chances of succeeding. Teachers are working to improve these students test scores and while they are doing this the students are learning more than just what is needed to pass the tests. Schools need better teachers to help students in the long run.