#  Changing How Teachers Improve 

 





February 03, 2011

 

 

*CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane discusses teacher effectiveness in the following Harvard Gazette article.*

It can be a lonely journey, learning to become a better teacher.

“Imagine that you were getting essentially no feedback on the work you were doing. And now imagine that you had one of the most important jobs in the world. No, I’m not talking about [President Obama](http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama), because even he had the midterm elections. That’s what it is like to be a teacher.”

Despite that grim assessment, Harvard’s [Tom Kane](http://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty_research/profiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=71512) hopes to radically change that public school paradigm as head of a national initiative funded by the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx).

Launched in the fall of 2009, the [Measures of Effective Teaching Project](http://www.metproject.org/) is the largest effort of its kind to collect video, student perceptions, and assessments of student achievement and teacher knowledge. The project’s goal is to learn what effective teaching looks like.

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*[Continue reading in the Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/02/changing-how-teachers-improve/)*



 

 

 



 

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