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Teacher evaluation protocols need to be better tailored to gauge the effectiveness of special education teachers and specialists who work with English-language learners, a research and policy brief from the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality says.
The brief makes the case that teacher effectiveness is different for [...]

July 28, 2010
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
PHOENIX — A federal judge, ruling on a clash between the federal government and a state over immigration policy, has blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law from going into effect.
In a ruling on a law that has rocked politics coast to [...]

By Debra Viadero on July 21, 2010 10:19 AM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
If you listen to a lot of policy discussions on education, chances are that you’ve heard one scholar or another stand up to talk about how teacher credentials, such as holding a traditional license or having [...]

July 21, 2010
By TAMAR LEWIN
Less than two months after the nation’s governors and state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks.
Their support has surprised many in [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 28, 2010
No. 330
www.nyc.gov

Statement of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg:

“Today, the State Department of Education released the results of the math and English exams administered this spring. This year’s scores maintained the major progress we have made raising student achievement levels in recent years, and the decision by [...]

July 28, 2010
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Applying new, tougher standards, state education officials said Wednesday that more than half of public school students in New York City failed their English exams this year, and 54 percent of them passed in math.
The results were in stark contrast to successes that Mayor Michael R. [...]