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Is Good Education down to a good Teacher

June 17, 2009 by Sarah Newton  
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I read a great article this morning by Rob Pitingolo and his thoughts on good and bad teacher. In this article he includes a quote from Malcolm Gladwell’s .

“Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year’s worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a very good teacher will learn a year and a half’s worth of material. That difference amounts to a year’s worth of learning in a single year. Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a “bad” school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher.”

This really got me thinking could we be blaming the student when the teacher may be to blame? What do you think?

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