I have often wondered why there has never been a study involving teachers who transfer between poorly rated schools and highly rated ones. It would be interesting to have a study that placed a number of teachers from successful schools into failing schools and transferred an equal number of teachers from failing schools into successful schools. What would be the progress of these students?

I suspect that students in the successful schools would continue to progress at an acceptable pace and the students in the failing schools would not show any outstanding progress.

Gilbert M. Lane, retired