Tagged: Education Reform

NPR's Shankar Vedantam has a story today about a study conducted by a bunch of economists. He writes that they:

divided 150 teachers into three groups. One group got no incentive; they just went about their school year as usual. A second group was promised a bonus if their students did well at math.

In Chicago, parents were fuming over a weeklong strike by teachers. Around the rest of the country, in the face of growing evidence that many U.S. students are falling behind, administrators have tried to devise different ways to motivate teachers.

In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations — specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.