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What the PISA and NASSP analysis shows is that, when we take out the bottom quintile of students based on family wealth and income, American students are doing just fine. More than just fine, in fact—we are right up there with the top scoring nations. But because we have more children per capita living in poverty than any developed nation on Earth, the effects of poverty take their toll on our national standings in the international test score derbies.

—Schools Matter: How Much Teachers Affect Student Achievement, and Other Myths (via girlwithalessonplan)

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The post below is written by Jim Alexander, and it is based on research by Dan Goldhaber who extends the work of James Coleman into the present day. Alexander notes that Goldhaber and his colleagues have concluded is that “that around 9 percent of variation in student achievement is due to teacher characteristics. About 60 percent of variation is explainable by individual student characteristics, family characteristics, and such variables. All school input combined (teacher quality, class variables, etc.) account for approximately 21 percent of student outcomes.” So even though teachers are the most important school-based factor in student achievement (however you measure it), a teacher’s influence pales in comparison to factors from outside the school.

—Schools Matter: How Much Teachers Affect Student Achievement, and Other Myths (via girlwithalessonplan)

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