Monday, January 10, 2011

Indiana's education leader makes up claims about teacher quality

In this post at a blog called School Matters, John Hinnefeld thoroughly debunks Tony Bennett's claim that teachers have twenty times more impact on student achievement than any other factor.

Hinnefeld and the other writer of the blog contacted one of the researchers associated with the study Bennett has cited, and they learned that Bennett basically made up that claim.

Read the whole piece here.

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