How to get a good teacher: the sink or swim model, Part 2

(Continued from the previous post.)

The nature of teacher education and of the teaching profession

In his column, Gladwell goes on to make some policy recommendations based on the contention that we can’t predict who will be a good teacher and who won’t (“good” defined by student gains as measured by standardized tests):

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How to get a good teacher: the “sink or swim” model, Part 1

A recent post over at Kevin’s Walk, one of my regular stops, was about teachers and teacher effectiveness. He cites the following paragraph from this article in The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell:

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