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...three years ago here in New York City, where we give schools an A-to-F grade based on how well they're helping their students acquire skills. The grades help focus schools on a clear set of expectations and are one way we hold them accountable. Principals and teachers in schools with high grades are eligible for performance bonuses. Schools with failing grades face leadership change or, in some cases, closure. The results are undeniable. New York State recently released graduation rates for the class of 2009, and they show a record number of city students receiving diplomas, including...
...Obama Administration is trying to remove NCLB's "perverse incentives," as Education Secretary Arne Duncan has termed them, and measure school performance against a new yardstick: improvement among individual students. "NCLB says that a fifth-grade teacher who helps a student reading at a second-grade level reach a fourth-grade level within one year has missed their goal," Duncan said in a statement unveiling the proposal. "In fact, that teacher is an excellent teacher and should be applauded...
Tours are limited to small groups, which allows them to cram into a two-room shack belonging to Nombuyiselo Ngxizele, a former teacher who is happy to recount tales of life under and after apartheid. She believes that things are better now, but adds that the euphoria of the Mandela presidency has given way to disenchantment with the new generation of leaders. "They just want to boost their own egos," she says...
...overwhelming majority of the more than 40,000 public-school teachers in a wide-ranging survey reported that too many students leave high school ill-equipped. The Gates Foundation--funded study suggests that clear standards, student performance evaluations and teacher assessments are among the keys to improvement. Only 45% of teachers said that higher salaries--often touted as a panacea--are "absolutely essential" to retaining good instructors. Some 68%, however, cited quality leadership...
...pass critical tests - if they are going to win promotion. "I don't have time to train junior officers," she allegedly told a fellow officer, even though the probe concluded that it should have been one of her "highest priorities." At times, she seemed to prefer humiliation as a teacher. The probe discovered that she put a "well-respected Master Chief" in "time out" - standing in the ship's key control room doing nothing - "in front of other watch standers of all ranks," which enraged Navy personnel...