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Rewarding Good Teachers: The Time Has Come

Should teacher pay scales reward expe­ri­ence or effec­tive­ness? Has tenure con­tributed to the decline of our pub­lic schools by reward­ing longevity rather than results? The time has come to eval­u­ate our teach­ers and reward them accord­ingly. Click on the link above to read more

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Who is Teaching Our Teachers?

According to Arthur Levine of Columbia Teachers College, there are 1,300 schools of edu­ca­tion and no more than half are accred­ited.  When the aca­d­e­mic suc­cess of our stu­dents depends on the qual­ity of their teach­ers, we must exam­ine this star­tling sta­tis­tic. In fact, when it comes to improv­ing stu­dent achieve­ment, there’s no sub­sti­tute for an […]

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Questions We Asked

Click above to see three ques­tions we asked of the KCMSD admin­stra­tion on September 9th. We wanted to know about plans to eval­u­ate teach­ers, plans to retain only cer­ti­fied teach­ers and plans to imple­ment proven, research-driven read­ing pro­grams in our schools.

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