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Student Learning and Teacher Performance
Corrected President Obama and Education Secretary Duncan have drawn a clear line in the sand with regard to evaluating teacher performance: States with laws that restrict the use of student achievement...
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Obama’s Firewall
Michele McNeil at Education Week‘s Politics K-12 blog reports that President Obama himself approved the Race To The Top provision that restricts these competitive grants for going to states that...
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Where’s That Dutch Kid?
Gotham Schools reports that some in New York State don’t believe that the state’s law that restricts student assessment data from being used in teacher tenure decisions will hamper the state from...
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Is California’s "Firewall" Penetrable?
California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell countered criticism by Education Secretary Arne Duncan about a state law restricting the use of student assessment data in teacher...
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RttT: The Odds
The New Teacher Project’s (NTP) odds sheet on states’ chances for securing Race to the Top funding is a helpful guide on where states stand. It is relatively on target given available information, and...
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RttT: Redefining Teacher Effectiveness
My colleagues and I at the New Teacher Center have offered up what I believe to be a balanced and thoughtful series of recommendations to strengthen the teacher and principal effectiveness provisions...
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RttT: Terminate This Law!
A new Education Week story (‘California Actions on ‘Race to the Top’ Scrutinized’) by Alyson Klein reports on efforts underway in California and New York to make statutory changes that would...
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Abandon All Hope (For Reform) Ye Who Enter Here!
At first glance, one might dismiss a recent policy brief authored by a former Bush Administration official as a partisan diatribe against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Obama...
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Inn-O-Vate
Yesterday the U.S. Education Department released proposed regulations to govern the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund, part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, along with the $4...
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Race to the Top’s Dropouts
UPDATED 5/28/2010 The deadline for state applications in Phase Two of the Race to the Top (RttT) competition is next Tuesday, June 1st. Only two states, Delaware and Tennessee, succeeded in winning...
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