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Cover Story Back to school: How to measure a good teacher
Back to school: Perhaps the most controversial education reform is how to measure a good teacher. As the trend to overhaul teacher evaluations catches fire, some teachers find that new feedback and mentoring programs can lead to 'incredible' results with their students.
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What Teachers Make
A defense of teaching from an impertinent, hilarious, and challenging teacher.
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The next Race to the Top? Arne Duncan outlines vision for teacher reform.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan launched a $5 billion proposal Wednesday aimed at improving the teaching profession at every level. It would be modeled after the Race to the Top program.
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Teacher layoffs ahead: Should seniority prevail? Six considerations.
Thousands of teachers are being notified this spring that their jobs are in jeopardy – and many of those layoffs may actually occur, given the severe budget crises affecting state and local governments. The result is renewed scrutiny of the seniority rules that govern layoffs in many states. Just in the past month, Florida has done away with such rules, and Georgia is on its way.
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Which cities are most willing to tackle education reform?
A report released Tuesday ranks cities not in terms of best-performing schools but on their openness to outside ideas and education reform.
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Is Michelle Rhee the new face of education reform?
The chancellor of Washington, D.C., public schools puts teacher performance at the center of a controversial bid to remake one of the nation’s most troubled urban school districts.
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