History of IDEA
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
The trouble with professional development for teachers
- 06-30-2011
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Guest blog by Yvette Jackson/Washington Post
The way we provide professional learning experiences and support our nation’s teachers is a running source of debate and, unfortunately, disappointment. Policymakers grumble at the costs. Teachers complain they don’t get what they need while parents and the public wait for our schools to get it right for our students. According to a recent report by the Washington-based National Council on Teacher Quality, the Los Angeles Unified School District is no less immune to this concern than the rest of the nation. As the report noted, LAUSD spent $500 million to help teachers complete graduate coursework that the report found to be largely pointless in terms of raising student performance. (more...)
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