Forbes – Adam Ozimek
“Teacher labor supply is an issue in education reform that I think doesn’t get enough attention, but I’ve tried to write and think about. The core issue is, if we’re going to reform education in ways that make being a teacher a worse job, you run the risk that fewer people will want to be teachers, and the quality of teachers will go down. Given these concerns, there is good news in an NBER study that suggests that education reforms in Washington D.C. that push out poor performing teachers are improving results:.”(more)