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A look at eight instruments used to assess school leaders finds only one measures the characteristics sought after today for evaluating principals.
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Civil rights groups sued the Los Angeles Unified School District and the state, claiming thousands of teacher layoffs will deprive inner-city children of their right to an education.
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Teachers’ views on how instructional effectiveness should be measured, as well as how it could be improved, are not well-aligned with current education policy initiatives, according to a new survey report.
Both the economy and a push to measure teacher effectiveness in new ways have led states to revamp funding for the certification.
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A bipartisan bill seeks to create a grant program that would help recruit, support, and prepare principals to work in high-need schools.
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The public-private partnerships will roughly double spending under the "Educate to Innovate" initiative on science and math education.
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W. Norton Grubb and Lynda Tredway say there are concrete steps that states, universities, and districts can take to develop and improve school leaders.
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A study of California public schools shows the future labor demand for school administrators varies drastically by county.
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A national task force has issued a strongly worded report raising concerns about the poor state of teacher education in physics and offering ideas to improve the situation.
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