American economist at Hoover Institution — the leading researcher on the economic returns to educational quality — whose work quantifies how teacher quality affects student lifetime earnings.
Quantifies teacher quality as the most important school-based factor in student outcomes — Hanushek's research showing that having a good teacher versus a bad teacher produces lifetime earnings differences of $250,000+ per student is the most consequential finding in education economics.
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