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Advocacy group proposes 'ticket to teach' idea
- 01-05-2011
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Blog by Stephen Sawchuk/Education Week
A Washington-based political-action group proposed yesterday to use a bunch of federally funded teacher programs as the basis of a new competitive initiative to produce effective teachers. Called "Ticket to Teach," the proposal by Democrats for Education Reform is part of a series of briefs on what the group calls "the new normal" for public education. The phrase riffs off U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's well-publicized speech last month at the American Enterprise Institute calling on districts to rethink how they're doing business in a time of fiscal austerity. The idea of the proposal is to fund "consortia" of districts, higher education institutions, nonprofits, and community organizations to create a new, tailored initiative for preparing teachers. The funding would be used to support loan forgiveness, stipends, and scholarships for teacher-candidates—but only for candidates recruited from the top third of the nation's college students (similar to the idea put out by McKinsey & Co. in a recent report.) (more…)
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