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“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year, it boosts their income by an average of about 2 percent per year,” says Raj Chetty (left), professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Chetty was a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman.
As leaders in government and business search for ways to strengthen the U.S. recovery, new research from faculty atHarvard and Columbia indicates that elementary school teachers have an impact on how much their students earn as adults and, by extension, on the nation’s economy.
“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year, it boosts their income by an average of about 2 percent per year,” says Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’sFaculty of Arts and Read the rest of this entry »



