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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

NCLB: Will Duncan Plan Address Teacher Inequities This Week In Education

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Ratings: The Upside Of "Persistently Low-Achieving"

Quotes2"I thought T.C. Williams being tagged "persistently low achieving" was the lowest moment of my career... Now I see it more as an unfriendly wake-up call, something to pull us back from the long, slow slide of not serving all our students well." -- English teacher Patrick Welsh in the Washington Post

NCLB: Will Duncan Plan Address Teacher Inequities?

All Matt Yglesias really wanted to do was to give a shout-out to a colleague at the Center on American Progress, but instead his post about teacher salaries generated heat and disdain from readers. The point he was trying to make -- an extremely worthwhile and too long ignored issue -- is that the Duncan blueprint proposes to address the long-vexing issue of teacher distribution within districts.