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The Lasting Benefits of Tougher Tenure Rules

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The Lasting Benefits of Tougher Tenure Rules
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Teacher Kara Semtner leads her 6th grade science class at Normal Park Upper School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in a game on the first day of school in 2015. The state’s teacher tenure reform law was passed in 2011.






For the better part of a century, most public school teachers in the United States were paid according to rigid “step and lane” systems, with pay and tenure based on education and years of experience. Meanwhile, performance evaluations were infrequent, did not include me

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