Study Points Out Link Between Student Achievement, Teacher Training

The AP (10/17, Blankinship) reports that according to a new study from the University of Washington Center for Education Data & Research, students' academic achievement "can be traced, in part, to where their teachers went to college. ... But the center's director, Dan Goldhaber, cautioned that the study is just a first step toward determining what kind of training - not where the training occurred - best prepares teachers for excellence in the classroom. Even so, it's the kind of information US Education Secretary Arne Duncan would like every school to have access to and that's why he recently announced a new program to use federal dollars to pay for similar research."