Hanushek recently did a back-of-the-envelope calculation about what even a rudimentary focus on teacher quality could mean for the United States.
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But voters increasingly see Democrats as beholden to teachers' unions and the status quo, says Eric Hanushek, an education expert at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Peer-reviewed studies by Eric Hanushek of Stanford University have considered the effect of eliminating the worst teachers by replacing these teachers with average teachers.