Credentials and Teacher Quality

This is news? A surprise?

We still have no good way to judge teacher quality.

Steve

I'm a public high school economics teacher in suburban DC. I wrote a (completely non empirical and very against-the-grain, pro-market) piece on teacher hiring and firing here:

http://vp-emergentorder.blogspot.com/

@Jim Glass

Apparently it is to teachers unions, which tend to force pay scales to be based on seniority and credentials while aggressively opposing any attempts to bring merit into the pay discussion. Not that this is going to change their direction.

Finalnd's teachers are 95% unionized.

Steve