How do you know a teacher will be good?
I had some time over the holidays to catch up on all of my New Yorker magazines, and I came across a fantastic article written by Malcom Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink and most recently, Outliers. The article is titled “Most Likely to Succeed: How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job?” (Click here to read it.) (If you do read it, you’ll note that Gladwell spends a lot of time discussing finding the right quarterback for an American football team. Ignore those parts, or skip them, or whatever
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How do you know a teacher will be good?
