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- 11-23-2009
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
They are also precisely the sorts of things that the state should be considering in its application for the Race to the Top competition. Improving teacher performance, including using data as a factor to set teachers’ pay, is a primary focus of the $4.35 billion federal program. The grant to the consortium is part of a $290 million initiative dealing with teacher performance and evaluations that the Gates Foundation announced last week. Three school districts – Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, Memphis City Schools in Tennessee and the Pittsburgh Public Schools in Pennsylvania – also received money. The initiative marks a new direction for Gates, which had focused on breaking up big high schools into smaller schools. (more...)
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