What 2011 teachers of the year told the Ed Dept.

05-06-2011

Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post

Education Secretary Arne Duncan wasn’t able to make it as scheduled, but a handful of his top staff members spent some time on Thursday talking about school reform to the visiting 2011 Teachers of the Year, and what wasn’t said was as striking as what was. The single time spontaneous applause erupted from the teachers was when Angie Miller, the 2011 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year, spoke candidly about teachers and mentioned that she was “annoyed” by an open letter to teachers Duncan had written for Teacher Appreciation Week. Miller was one of a number of teachers who served as representatives of discussion groups that had earlier come up with recommendations for the Education Department to consider in rewriting No Child Left Behind. (more...)

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