As long as most students have access to an effective teacher with this additional time, one would expect more productivity to result.

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When that happens, we believe that districts will be on the cusp of providing every student with an effective teacher, in every class, every year.

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OECD's education experts think that part of the reason why East European countries' pupils do so well in international tests, despite fairly modest education spending, is that they have effective teacher-training programmes.

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"The literature is pretty clear that having an effective, novice teacher is much better than having a mediocre, experienced teacher, " Mr. Goldhaber said.

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Oh, and if you want to know how effective I am as a teacher, here is a simple metric- walk into my classroom and sit down for an hour or so.

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Recognizing the importance of the role of Parent Teacher Councils, effective use of school development funds, increasing enrollment, reducing dropout, and ensuring quality of teaching, UNESCO in collaboration with Provincial Institute of Teachers Education (PITE) Peshawar, is organizing series of workshops on "Reactivation of Parent Teacher Councils" of Sufaid Dheri and Malkandher Union Councils, and FR- Peshawar area.

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This requires public policies that institute effective mechanisms for the regulation, accreditation, and support of teacher training institutions, and means of verifying the skills possessed by graduates.

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Its honorary chairman, and one of its most effective spokesmen, is California's best-known Latino teacher, Jaime Escalante, whose struggle to teach calculus to barrio kids in East Los Angeles has been celebrated in a film.

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In the past three years, more than 25 states have passed laws to link scores to teacher evaluations, because officials think it is a more effective way to gauge performance than traditional reliance on observations by school principals.

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