Long Tail Learners » Archive of 'Jul, 2009'

Matching Teachers to Learners

In Gates Foundation: Good teachers trump small schools, eSchool News reports that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has determined that billions of dollars in grants to support a range of initiatives shows that the key to better education is effective teachers, not necessarily smaller schools. Of course, this begs the question: who are effective teachers and how do we determine their effectiveness?

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