Good Teaching Matters: How Well-Qualified Teachers Can Close the Gap.

Abstract

For decades, educators, educators-in-training, and the public more broadly have been relentlessly fed the same message about achievement among poor and minority students: Because of poverty and other neighborhood conditions, these students enter school behind other As they progress through the grades, the deficits accumulate, leaving them further and further behind other students. Their conclusion? Nothing schools do makes a very big difference.