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Elizabeth Green’s feature story, “Building a Better Teacher”, New York Times Sunday Magazine (March 15), certainly drew attention to a long-neglected issue – the promise and perils of attempting to transform teacher culture and to introduce sustainable teacher evaluation/development in any form. It’s an exceedingly complex undertaking and a path littered with a succession of [...]
Since the time of the Ancients, the art of teaching has sparked intense discussion both inside and outside of the academy. In the March 7 edition of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Elizabeth Green, editor of GothamSchools.org, tackles the whole question in a splendid feature essay. Her article focuses on Doug Lemov, an Albany [...]
Some American public school districts are now offering salary incentives or “merit pay” to encourage and reward exemplary teachers. In Houston, Texas, the merit pay system started in 2005 provides teachers with $40 million (up to $11,000 extra per year) for measurable improvements in student performance. President Barak Obama surprised many by saying “It’s time [...]
Education is now a tremendously high profile public issue in the United States unlike in Canada. Since the election of President Barak Obama in November 2008, the new administration has made education reform a top priority, recasting the discredited NCLB into the “Race to the Top” initiative, fuelled by $4.35 billion in federal stimulus spending. [...]
“Which school is the best?” That is one of the questions most commonly asked by today’s parents. Since most parents want what’s best for their children, it is a question which never goes away. Yet it’s also a question that almost always elicits an equivocal response and then a “mini-lecture” from most educators. Ranking schools, [...]
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