Monday, March 14, 2011

A recent e-mail sent out to staff by Dr. Ibarra

Something to think about...
 

Recent scholarship suggests that good teachers, even kindergarten teachers, increase theirstudents’ earnings many years later. Eric A. Hanushek of Stanford University found that an excellent teacher (one a standard deviation better than average, or better than 84 percent of teachers) raises each student’s lifetime earnings by $20,000. If there are 20 students in the class, that is an extra $400,000 generated, compared with a teacher who is merely average.
A teacher better than 93 percent of other teachers would add $640,000 to lifetime pay of a class of 20, the study found

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