Tecaher2__1256935724_2947Our cover story in the new issue of CommonWealth explores the outmoded, industrial-model teacher policies that are holding our schools back.  It is increasingly clear that teachers are the key school-based factor in student achievement and that there are real differences in teachers’ ability to drive student learning. Yet nothing about our systems for hiring, evaluating, promoting, or paying teachers is designed with this mind. A condensed version of the story appears in the Ideas section of today’s Boston Globe.

Illustration by James Steinberg from the Boston Globe.

Michael Jonas works with Laura in overseeing CommonWealth Beacon coverage and editing the work of reporters. His own reporting has a particular focus on politics, education, and criminal justice reform.