When educational research reaches the public through the corporate media, the consequences are often dire, explains P.L. Thomas for the Daily Kos. Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff released “The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood” [1] and immediately The New York Times pronounced in “Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gains” [2]. The simplistic and idealistic headline reflects the central failure of the media in the education reform debate…
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