Items from 12 people Judith Beaver follows

The re­sults show that “cue-induced” gam­ing urges draw on a net­work of
brain path­ways “si­m­i­lar to that of the cue-induced crav­ing in sub­stance de­pend­ence,”

“Creating a New Teaching Profession,” a new collection of academic papers, politely calls this idea “deselection”

reformers are also trying to create incentives

into the profession

different caliber of person”

Obama administration’s education department has embraced merit pay

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There was an implementation gap,”

but they didn’t know how

knew they had to change

implementation gap,”

Incentives by themselves were not going to be enough.

implementation gap,

implementation gap,”

The smarter path to boosting student performance, Lemov maintains, is to improve the quality of the teachers who are already teaching.

When Doug Lemov conducted his own search for those magical ingredients, he noticed something about most successful teachers that he hadn’t expected to find: what looked like natural-born genius was often deliberate technique in disguise. “Stand still when you’re giving directions,” a teacher at a Boston school told him. In other words, don’t do two things at once. Lemov tried it, and suddenly, he had to ask students to take out their homework only once.