Teacher Quality Quantity Chicago Public Schools is not known for being a hard grader on teacher quality. In a city with 20,000 teachers, it dismissed only about 1 percent of its teaching workforce, cumulatively, over an 11 year period ending in 2005. From 2003 to 2005, 80% ...
QUICK Hits [image: Quick Hits] *Quick Hits is a short compilation of question-raising news stories, blog posts, and video clips that Education Sector team members are reading and viewing each day.* - Going to college on a fishing scholarship? (New York ...
Race to the Test Due Today — What’s Needed Going Forward Today is the deadline for the $350 million “Race to the Test” competition. Proposals for a $320 million fund for comprehensive assessment systems (two proposals to be funded) and a $30 million fund for high school end-of-course tests are due today. ...
