More Districts Mine Data to Refine Teacher Hiring

Education Week: TeacherMatch CEO and co-founder Don Fraynd has a favorite exercise he likes to put principals and school human-resource teams through: He passes out the same stack of 20 teacher résumés, then asks each person in the room to identify two candidates to bring in for an interview.

"No matter where I do this, almost every single person gets at least one vote," said Fraynd, whose Chicago-based organization uses sophisticated software applications to help some 200 school districts find the best teachers. "It's pretty clear we're all over the place when it comes to this decision."

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