Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Kristin Blagg In 2009, the non-profit education reform organization TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project) published The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act Upon Teacher Effectiveness. This report spurred the redesign of many state and district teacher evaluation systems to more rigorously assess and address teacher effectiveness. Last week, the New […]
By Luca Etter Whenever either politicians or economists are claiming to have found the answer to most of the developing world’s questions, caution is warranted. Politicians – currently incapable of addressing even the most basic issues – seem to be in a rare phase of humble agreement that they do not have the recipes to […]