Many of the teachers who would be laid off under the mayor’s budget are idealists who had been beckoned to some of the most challenging classrooms.
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Parents at more than a dozen schools in California are hoping to take advantage of a trigger law, demanding that their schools radically improve. Delete the scoop?
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Improving teachers Lessons learned At last, America may change the way it trains, recruits and rewards teachers Jan 6th 2011 | CHICAGO Delete the scoop?
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The Census Bureau counts the number of students, average teacher salaries and the rising cost of college. Delete the scoop?
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Study tells college students the worth of their majors, offering peek at ...Washington PostBy AP, PHILADELPHIA — The choice of undergraduate major in college is strongly tied to a student's future earnings, with the highest-paying majors providing...
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KIPP publishes a college completion report and examines how to increase this rate for their low-income students.
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Many of the teachers who would be laid off under the mayor’s budget are idealists who had been beckoned to some of the most challenging classrooms.
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The mayor is taking on the teachers’ union amid an incendiary debate over the impact of public employees’ benefits and protections.
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A host of topics from nixing testing to Wisconsin teachers retiring to budget cuts.
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— The Illinois Senate on Thursday night unanimously approved sweeping education changes that would make it easier to lengthen the school day in Chicago and dump bad teachers statewide while...
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Teachers at 12 of Chicago’s charters have formed unions over the past two years, and the Chicago Teachers Union is seeking to organize all 85 of the schools.
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Remember when public schools paid almost as well as law firms?" NY Times OpEd by Nicholas Kristof Delete the scoop?
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Nations that outpace the United States in education use many strategies to help their students excel. They do, however, share one: They set high requirements to become a teacher, hold those who become one in high esteem... Delete the scoop?
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The best antipoverty investment in the world — from New York to Nigeria — is education. So why do we keep cutting it?
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The Detroit Public Schools, as we know it, could disappear in a few years. A DPS action plan would charter up to 45 schools, close 20 and leave about 70 that include the best-performing schools, some newly constructed.
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State education officials in New York plan to enact new evaluation regulations that permit up to 40 percent of the annual reviews to be based on students’ scores on standardized exams.
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News10.netPerformance-based teacher layoff bill dies in committeeLos Angeles TimesCalifornia legislation calling for creation of teacher ratings for use in layoff decisions instead of seniority fails to win enough votes to move forward.
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A Los Angeles public school teacher writes about the perils of May...the test prep month.
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In his role as New York City’s schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott will test whether the nation’s full-tilt approach to urban education reform is ready for a different kind of leader.
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Fresh from victories on the national stage last year, many local tea-party activist groups took their passion for limited government and less spending back to their hometowns, and to showdowns with teacher unions over pay in some cases.
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Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law a bill limiting collective bargaining for teachers Wednesday, while another piece of his education reform agenda -- an overhauled process for evaluating Indiana teachers -- passed in the House.
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