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Valerie Hill-Jackson is a Clinical Associate Professor College of Education at Texas A&M University

New Teacher Education Book Written

5.22.10 - Valerie Hill-Jackson and Chance W. Lewis recently released, their book, Transforming TeacherEducation: What Went Wrong with Teacher
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More English-language learners at LAUSD, state test shows

5.22.10 - The percentage of English-language learners at Los Angeles Unified who can read, write and speak English fluently increased slightly in 2009, according to state test...
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Teacher's wall of fame boasts about his college ‘kids'

5.22.10 - “I have had at least 800 kids go to college so far,” said Weeks, a teacher for 12 years. “I love going to their high school graduations. I get to live through them, be proud of them and...
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Improving schools by paying teachers to leave

5.22.10 - Jay Mathews - I read about a school principal who disliked saying she was firing staff. She preferred the phrase "freeing up teachers' futures." That is sort of what Hoover Institution...