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Highly Qualified Teachers: A National Imperative

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Highly Qualified Teachers: Why?

Impact of Effective vs. Ineffective Teachers on Low Performing Students

This slide contains a bar chart of Average Student Gains Over One Year (Tennessee). Students with an Ineffective Teacher gained 14%. Students with an Effective Teacher gained 53%.

Source: William Sanders and Joan Rivers, "Cumulative and Residual Effects of Teachers on Future Student Academic Achievement," 1996