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Scott stops by to praise teachers, pitch raises on his 'victory tour'
Gov. Rick Scott praised Florida's public-school teachers Tuesday during a visit to Ocoee Middle School, one of five stops on his weeklong "victory tour" to celebrate teacher raises. "We've got great teachers in our state, and we should be very thankful,"...
Tags: Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Politics, Students
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Teachers union plans new "legal challenge" to teacher evaluations
The Florida Education Association plans tomorrow to file a new legal challenge to Florida's new teacher evaluation system, a teacher union spokesman said. Mark Pudlow, the spokesman, said he could provide no other details until tomorrow. The union...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Florida Legislature, Leon County (Florida)
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ISTEP testing to proceed at 50% load
7:20 p.m. update -- We recieved the following update Tuesday night from the Indiana Department of Education: "Based upon assurances made by CTB McGraw Hill, the Indiana Department of Education is opening ISTEP+ testing tomorrow morning, Wednesday, May...
Tags: Teachers, McGraw-Hill Incorporated, Students, Teaching and Learning, Education
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Letters: Teaching and tests
Re "Gates' warning on test scores," Editorial, April 11 Bill Gates has figured out what those of us in education have known all along: Standardized tests are pretty good at identifying students' academic strengths and weaknesses, one of them being test-...
Tags: Teachers, School Examinations, Bill Gates, Teaching and Learning, Examinations
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Teacher raises may kick in this year – not 2014
Florida’s teachers could get raises as soon as this summer under a revised budget agreement state lawmakers hammered out Wednesday. The change means school employees won’t have to wait until June 2014 for a pay hike, as legislative leaders...Tags: Teachers, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Students
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Grade Inflation Undermining Universities
The Hartford CourantMisquoting William Shakespeare: "Now is the spring of our discontent." Indeed, even as the daffodils blossom and the songbirds sing, my students at the University of Connecticut are stressing out from their end-of-semester quest for high grades....Tags: Inflation and Deflation, University of Connecticut, Science and Technology, William Shakespeare, Colleges and Universities
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Harvard University, Charter Schools, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Entertainment Events
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L.A. teachers vote 'no confidence' in Supt. Deasy
Los Angeles teachers overwhelmingly expressed "no confidence" in L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy in the first vote of its kind in the nation's second-largest school system. In the weeklong referendum that ended Wednesday, 91% of the participating teachers...
Tags: Unions, School Examinations, Politics, Students, Career and Workplace
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Teachers vote no confidence in Supt. Deasy
Los Angeles teachers overwhelmingly expressed “no confidence” in L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy in the first vote of its kind in the nation’s second-largest school system. Over the weeklong referendum that ended Wednesday, more than...
Tags: Teachers, Unions, School Examinations, Politics, Teaching and Learning
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Greuel vows school reform as Garcetti seeks end to 'division'
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel laid out her plans to improve public schools on Thursday, pushing for tougher evaluations of teachers and principals, while opponent Eric Garcetti secured endorsements from a handful of African American leaders....
Tags: Local Elections, Anglicanism, Eric Garcetti, Politics, Teachers
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Teacher raises will kick in this year – not 2014
Florida's teachers could get raises as soon as this summer under a revised budget agreement state lawmakers hammered out Wednesday. The change means school employees won't have to wait until June 2014 for a pay hike, as legislative leaders had decided...
Tags: Employees, Teachers, Crime, Law and Justice, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Wethersfield Survey Asks Parents And Employees About Schools
The Hartford CourantThe school system wants to know what parents and employees think about everything from academics to the atmoshere in the schools. School officials emailed to employees and parents on Monday a survey with about 20 questions. The results will be used to...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace, Wethersfield
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