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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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