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EdNext Podcast: Engaging Teachers Unions in Education Reform
Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, joins EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss why school reformers should try to work with teachers unions in an effort to improve schools.
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The Education Exchange: Are Teachers Really Underpaid?
Andrew G. Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new article and whether teachers are paid appropriately compared to similar professions.
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EdNext Podcast: Elisa Villanueva Beard and the Impact of Teach For America
Elisa Villanueva Beard, the CEO of Teach For America, joins EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the organization and a new study by Katharine M. Conn, Virginia S. Lovison and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, which details how the organization impacts the beliefs of its teachers.
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EdNext Podcast: Comparing Teacher Skills in the U.S. and Abroad
The cognitive skills of teachers differ widely among nations. A new study investigates whether these differences affect student achievement and how the U.S. might recruit teachers with stronger cognitive skills. Eric Hanushek joins Marty West to discuss his article, "Do Smarter Teachers Make Smarter Students?," co-written with Marc Piopiunik and Simon Wiederhold.
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EdNext Podcast: Lessons from an Effort to Reform Teacher Evaluation
For four years, Tom Kane ran a project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which offered to help a set of school districts develop new ways of evaluating teacher effectiveness. He talks with EdNext's Marty West about lessons to be learned from that effort.
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The Education Exchange: Public Opinion on Teacher Quality
The 2017 Education Next poll asked the public, parents, and teachers what share of teachers at your local public school are excellent, good, satisfactory and unsatisfactory.
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EdNext Podcast: Rebooting Professional Development
Can professional development for teachers be personalized? Michael Horn joins EdNext editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss a new way of doing professional development. Teachers identify the skills they want to acquire, receive specialized training, and are certified as having these new competencies, receiving a micro-credential, something akin to a merit badge.
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What We’re Listening To: Freakonomics Radio on America’s Education Problem
How much of the problem lies in our teaching, and what’s to be done about it?
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Ed Next Book Club: Dana Goldstein on The Teacher Wars
Mike Petrilli interviews Dana Goldstein about her new book on teachers.
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Ed Next Book Club: Elizabeth Green on Building a Better Teacher
Mike Petrilli interviews Elizabeth Green about her new book on great teaching.