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Focusing on teacher quality
Bipartisan demands for well-trained, effective teachers are changing laws. Legislators in Colorado just passed a bill addressing K-12 teacher quality and student learning gains, and similar legislation is pending in New York.
Higher education take note: the same spotlight is on education schools. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is keenly aware of the nexus of low standards in education schools and ineffective teachers in the nation's classrooms. Last October, at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and at Columbia University's Teacher College, Duncan directed education schools to look toward student learning outcomes -- and bluntly identified most of the nation's education program as mediocre and in need of revolutionary change.
ACTA's Trustees for Better Teachers initiative has worked with governing boards over the past several years to promote teacher quality. The nation -- and America's school children -- desperately need active, insightful trustees engaged on this issue.
Posted by Michael Poliakoff on May 13, 2010 at May 13, 2010 06:10 PM
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