Is improving teacher effectiveness the only way to increase student achievement? What about factors like poverty or lack of parental involvement—don’t those also affect students negatively?
Many factors affect student achievement including the curriculum, length of the school day/year, pre-K readiness, parental engagement, etc. Research shows [need citation] that effective teaching is the most important school-related factor in increasing educational achievement. Many other programs and foundations are working on other factors that have an impact on a student’s ability to show up in the classroom ready to learn. We think the best way we can help students is by making sure an effective teacher is in the classroom ready to meet the student at whatever achievement level he or she has already reached, then use all his or her considerable teaching skill to ensure the student continues to gain at least one year of knowledge for every year spent in the classroom.
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