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Report criticizes colleges' teacher preparation programs
Teacher preparation programs in the nation and Maryland are part of "an industry of mediocrity" that is failing to give young teachers the skills to succeed in the classroom, according to a long-awaited report by a national research advocacy group. The...
Tags: Morgan State University, University of Maryland, College Park, Loyola University Maryland, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Towson University
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Schools' effort to shift to Common Core faces a difficult test
The passage for the seventh-grade lesson was blatantly offensive — an excerpt from a 1938 anti-Semitic children's book. But that was the point: to provide students in the Santa Ana school district with a perfect illustration of insidious...
Tags: New York City, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Arts and Culture, Mushrooms, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Ind. voucher program returns $5M to public schools
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's growing school voucher program is resulting in a modest gain for the state's public schools. The Indiana Department of Education announced Wednesday that $5 million is owed the state's schools because of savings...
Tags: Public Schools, Budgets and Budgeting, Education, Schools
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Baltimore Teachers Union supports call to halt Common Core consequences
The Baltimore Teacher's Union has called for the district hold off on attaching penalties to schools' performance on the the new Common Core assessments, citing insufficient professional development and resources to implement the new high-stakes...Tags: Adult Education, Credit and Debt, School Examinations, Parent Organizations, Teachers
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Teachers support Common Core standards but worry they are not ready to teach them, poll says
Teachers overwhelmingly support new "Common Core" academic standards in language arts and math, according to a new poll by the American Federation of Teachers. But they also are overwhelmingly worried that new tests tied to those new standards will be...Tags: Politics, Education, Elections, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Letters: Focus on kids, not tests
Re "Cheating is cheating," Editorial, April 3 You accuse us of weakening our condemnation of test score tampering in Atlanta because we also condemned the climate created by policymakers' fixation on standardized tests. Cheating is cheating. It should...Tags: School Examinations
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Atlanta test scores: Cheating is cheating
If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...
Tags: Students, School Examinations, Education, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Michelle Rhee, 'a public school parent'?
SACRAMENTO -- In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Michelle Rhee
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Teachers Union Opposes Nomination Of Charter School Executive To State Board Of Education
The Hartford CourantGov. Dannel P. Malloy's nomination of a charter school executive to the state Board of Education has met with a brushfire of opposition from a teachers union. Earlier this month, Malloy nominated Andrea Comer, 47, chief operating officer for the...Tags: Politics, Dannel P. Malloy , Elections, Regional Authority, Human Interest
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Wayne State board OKs 8-year pact before right-to-work law
DETROIT (AP) — Wayne State University's governors have ratified an eight-year faculty contract, one week ahead of the effective date of Michigan's new right-to-work law. The law bans mandatory payments from employees to the unions that represent...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Politics
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Tomblin's proposed W.Va. school overhaul clears first hurdle
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin saw his proposed overhaul of public schools clear its first legislative hurdle Tuesday when the Senate Education Committee endorsed the bill with modest changes to language addressing teacher hiring and the school calendar. Advanced...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Teach for America, Politics, Earl Ray Tomblin
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Pacts for profs, teachers before right-to-work law
DETROIT (AP) — Wayne State University professors in Detroit and teachers in a suburban school district separately agreed to eight-year contracts, weeks before Michigan's new right-to-work law takes effect. The law bans mandatory payments from...
Tags: Detroit Free Press, Unions, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Politics
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