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Are 1000 Teach For America Teachers Worth $8 Million?

Teach For America's presence in Texas may be in jeopardy thanks to the state's $20 billion budget shortfall.

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Education Reform: Bill Gates Versus Diane Ravitch

The Microsoft CEO-turned-education reformer asks what the NYU education expert is thinking. Be careful what you ask for.

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How Value-added Teacher Data Is Like a Baseball Batting Average

Neither is consistent from year-to-year, but they're among the best measures we've got for evaluating talent.

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How Is Your State Evaluating Its Teachers?

It's agreed that value-added teacher data alone isn't sufficient for assessing a teacher's performance. So what else are state's looking at?

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Should Education Reform Focus on Average Teachers?

By improving the quality of the middle 60 percent of teachers, reformers could affect the most amount of improvement for students.

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Do Parents Want Teachers' Grades?

The debate over whether to release teacher report cards is overheating, but what do parents think?

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New York May Soon Release Teacher Report Cards

On Friday afternoon, the New York City Department of Education may release grades of its 12,000 middle and elementary school teachers.

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How Can We Identify "Good Teaching"?

Are student's results on standardized tests a reasonable way to measure if a teacher is good at his or her job?