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Applying for RTT Funding

Stacey Shubitz1 Comment

As we were reading The New York Times this morning, my husband, who knew about the post, "Teacher Compensation & Standardized Test Scores," I wrote last week mentioned an article on page A12 of today's Times to me.  It's about Race to the Top and  just how long it takes for states to complete the… Continue reading Applying for RTT Funding

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Teacher Compensation & Standardized Test Scores

Stacey Shubitz12 Comments

Last week I began reading Steven L. Layne’s Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers (2009). By the time I finished page five, I had a highlighter and a pad of post-its in hand to record my thinking. Layne wrote: It would seem that there is every reason to believe that… Continue reading Teacher Compensation & Standardized Test Scores