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“When school leaders...are asked what the school system’s strategy for raising student achievement is, they cannot identify a single, unifying strategy,” said the report, which was authored by Lewis H. Spence ’69, past head of the Cambridge...
Spence praised recent developments in local schools, which have created new departments to oversee teacher training and analyze student test scores. But he wrote that these offices have “unclear and confusing” mandates and also cited the district’s “incoherent?...
In his report, Spence proposed an ambitious series of reforms focused on improving professional development for teachers. The school district should consolidate its goals for improving student achievement, Spence said. He also said the superintendent needs to appoint a deputy to coordinate the district’s professional development and...
Spence, who was recently appointed commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the state’s child welfare agency, spent three months interviewing Cambridge school administrators, members of the School Committee and a focus group of teachers before presenting his findings yesterday.
Mankiw said that the work of Spence and the other two winners has already had a tremendous impact on the way economists think about markets.