Ed. Dept. Funds Large-Scale Research Effort on Teaching
The U.S. Department of Education announced last week the awarding of a five-year, $23 million contract to the University of Maryland College Park and 25 partner organizations to undertake an unusual research effort aimed at improving teaching.
The National Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching, as the initiative will be known, will have a Washington office and a policy board and management committee to govern it.
The partnership will try to build consensus around two broad issues: enhancing teachers' opportunities to learn throughout their careers, and creating conditions in schools that can...
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