Research Says Teachers (and Teacher Policy) Matter

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professor and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Dr. Marcus Winters discusses the major themes of his new book Teachers Matter. Learn what research has to say about how Colorado and other states should identify, promote and reward effective teachers.

[http://audio.ivoices.org/mp3/iipodcast534.mp3]

Posted by ben on Apr 13th, 2012 and filed under Alternative Certification, Pay for Performance, Podcasts, Teachers, Tenure. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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  1. [...] You also can listen to a 15-minute podcast discussion on Teachers Matter with Dr. Marcus Winters and… Posted by ben on Apr 16th, 2012 and filed under Alternative Certification, Events, Latest on K-12 issues, Our Events, Pay for Performance, Teachers, Tenure. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site [...]

  2. [...] Last week, our Education Policy Center hosted its first ever brown bag lunch with presentation on the research that informs educator effectiveness policies. The presenter was Manhattan Institute senior fellow and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professor Dr. Marcus Winters. He shared with our audience the findings from his new book, Teachers Matter. After his 30 minute presentation, Dr. Winters fielded questions from the audience for about 20 minutes. Below you’ll find both the presentation video and the Q and A video. Additionally, Marcus dropped by our podcast studio to do a podcast with our Ben DeGrow. You can listen to the iVoices.org podcast here. [...]

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