Good teachers make their students into better people?

A somewhat different take about the effects of good teaching than I’ve read before. The study applies to elementary and middle school teachers, but the implications are probably relevant for all teaching, that good teachers help people do better in life as a whole, not just in terms of better subject scores. Intuitively, we’ve always argued something like this for our work at JBU, but this article makes the argument more concrete.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/education/big-study-links-good-teachers-to-lasting-gain.html?src=me&ref=general

From the authors of "The Innovative University"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/guest-post-eight-thoughts-on-higher-education-in-2012/2011/12/22/gIQA0RwXBP_blog.html?tid=sm_btn_linkedIn

This is pretty much standard fare for those following these issues, but this book is probably one of the better summaries of the general situation that is confronting higher education.