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Alison DeNisco
District Administration, March 2013
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Great Teachers Can't Save America's Schools

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 2:19pm
In last year's State of the Union address, the president placed too much importance on individual educators. This year, he should talk about a far deeper problem.

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The Atlantic

Students Rating Teachers

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Assessing quality requires measures beyond test scores.
Odvard Egil Dyrli
District Administration, March 2013
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New Florida Education Chief Sets Top Priorities

Submitted by ANGELA PASCOPELLA on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 3:44pm

Florida's new education commissioner says his top priorities are implementing Common Core State Standards and a new teacher merit pay and tenure law.

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The Miami Herald

LA Teachers Approve New Evaluation Standards

Submitted by klacey on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 1:50pm
After months of negotiations, the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union have reached a compromise that will now use a controversial multifactor system to evaluate teacher performance.

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Los Angeles Daily News

Calif. Schools Flunk Education Group's Ratings

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/08/2013 - 3:01pm
California is sorely lacking when it comes to school reform, failing to adopt policies to limit teacher tenure and use student test scores in teacher evaluations, according to a rating of states issued Monday by a high-profile education advocacy group.

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Los Angeles Times

Maryland Announces State's High School Tech Ed Teacher of the Year

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 3:43pm
Jim Deitrich, currently teaching at Liberty High and former teacher at Westminster High, has been named Maryland's High School Technology Education Teacher of the Year.

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Westminster Patch

Reform Leads to Teacher Retention in D.C.

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Alison DeNisco
District Administration, Feb 2013
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Neb. Officials Avoid Charges in Failure to Report Sex Abuse

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 3:39pm

Three western Nebraska school officials accused of failing to report allegations that high school wrestlers sexually assaulted a young teammate at a summer wrestling camp will not face charges, an attorney for two of the officials said Friday.

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Huffington Post

Fla. Education Chief Defends Teacher Evaluations

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 12/06/2012 - 4:53pm

Florida's interim education commissioner told worried lawmakers on Thursday that glitches in the first release of scores under the state's new teacher evaluation system are being fixed and that there's no reason to delay its implementation. The Department of Education took down a website showing nearly 97 percent of Florida teachers were rated "effective" or "highly effective" in the last school year within hours of putting it up on Wednesday.

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