How shaky is President Obama’s support among teachers?
This was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and now works with a team of science teacher-coaches that supports novice teachers. He is a National Board-certified teacher and an active member of the Teacher Leaders Network. A version of this post appeared on his Education Week Teacher blog, Living in Dialogue .
By Anthony Cody
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This is a response to a post I published Tuesday by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State University, about what he called an “absurd” debate about how long the school year should be. He noted that there is no compelling evidence that a longer school year improves student learning. Here is a response to this post jointly written by Jennifer Davis, co-founder and president of the National Center on Time & Learning, and Emily McCann, president of Citizen Schools.
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