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Excellence in the Classroom
A new volume from The Future of Children focuses on improving the quality of teachers as a critical move towards closing the achievement gap. Accompanying the journal is an executive summary and a policy brief. The volume concludes that good teachers make a difference. According to the 15 leading scholars who contributed to the journal, the most promising way to improve teacher quality is to broaden entry requirements, identify and promote effective teachers, provide additional pay to successful teachers who work in challenging schools, and promote meaningful professional development. Strengthening the teacher workforce is not a one-time policy initiative. The editors argue that ongoing flexibility will be needed for schools to implement these reforms. Education policy in individual districts, and in the nation as a whole, would be well served if reform initiatives were designed from the outset with credible evaluation elements.
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info_show.htm?doc_id=468970
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