Teaching Poor Kids: Is the Obstacle the Poverty or the Pedagogy?

Laura Waters:

One dispute over tying teacher evaluations to data on student growth has been the charge that teachers who are effective with wealthy students would see their value-added scores plummet with poor students. Those opposed to data-infused evaluations argue that even great teachers can't maintain the same degree of effectiveness with needy kids. It's the poverty, not the pedagogy.

However, there's a new working paper out from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Educational Research, "Portability of Teaching Effectiveness Across School Settings," that comes to a different conclusion. From the abstract:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 3, 2012 1:01 AM
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