The 74 Million – Kathy Moore
“For every teacher who is hired and tenured, a school district is making a roughly $2 million investment — and that’s a conservative estimate based on researcher Dan Goldhaber’s work. Yet there is very little data on which to rely when making that consequential choice. No surprise then that hands shot up across the room Monday when moderator and Scholastic Editor-in-Chief Wayne D’Orio asked dozens of professionals at the South by Southwest Education Festival if they ever made a bad one. The work that Goldhaber, director of the Center for Education Data & Research at the University of Washington Bothell, undertook with the Spokane, Washington, school district to dig deeper and come up with some of that data was the subject of Monday’s The Science of Teacher Hiring panel.”(more)