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Sage Advice: How Would You Save Public Education? | Edutopia
Edutopia.org | 20 minutes ago
I am entrusted with guiding the minds and futures of hundreds of students each year, and society wants to make me accountable for students' performance like a manufacturer is responsible for the quality of its products. However, the system doesn't want to compensate me in any reasonable way for the sometimes sixty-hour workweeks or the six figures I spent, and am still spending, on my own education.

Burke problems = teacher pay cuts?
Charlotte Observer (N.C.), The | 9 hours 50 minutes ago
A bitter and lengthy battle over the Burke County Schools' superintendent probably cost Tracy Norman her job as school board chairman on election day.

Gates Foundation funds teacher quality models
eSchool News | 10 hours 51 minutes ago
Grants will fund innovative projects that seek to become models for improving the nation?s teaching

Diversity, achievement are on agenda of St. Paul superintendent candidates
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) | 10 hours 54 minutes ago
Three candidates go down to the wire to be named superintendent of St. Paul Public Schools.

Winners Named for Gates Teacher Grants
Education Week (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org) | 12 hours 11 minutes ago
Three districts and a charter school consortium will receive a share of $500 million to improve teacher effectiveness.

Gates Foundation gives $335M for teacher quality
eSchool News | 12 hours 54 minutes ago
Grants will fund innovative projects that seek to become models for improving the nation?s teaching

Wake schools' budget woes drag on
News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), The | 15 hours 9 minutes ago
Wake County students and teachers dealing with overcrowded classrooms and fewer courses aren't going to get relief next year and could actually experience even worse conditions.

Gates helps fund city teacher effectiveness project
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 20 hours 18 minutes ago
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation yesterday awarded $290 million in teacher-effectiveness grants to schools in Pittsburgh and three other cities, saying the bold initiatives they've proposed have the chance to shape the future of teaching in America.

Memphis' 'potential' got Gates Foundation's attention» The Commercial Appeal
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), The | 20 hours 28 minutes ago
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Hillsborough schools win $100 million Gates teaching grant
St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) | 21 hours 4 minutes ago
Hillsborough County schools took a bow on the national stage Thursday, officially winning a $100 million teacher effectiveness grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Schools get the Gates grant
Tampa Tribune (Fla.), The | 21 hours 24 minutes ago
Hillsborough County schools have won $100 million to overhaul how teachers are trained and evaluated, with a goal of of increasing high school graduation rates.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invests $335M in grants for teacher effectiveness
Plain Dealer (Cleveland), The | 1 day 21 minutes ago
By Nick Anderson / Washington Post The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday, Nov. 19, a $335 million investment in teacher effectiveness, with major grants for experiments in tenure, evaluation, compensation, training and mentoring in three large school systems and a cluster of public charter schools.

Lingle representative, school officials to meet
Honolulu Advertiser, The | 1 day 4 hours 58 minutes ago
A member of the Lingle administration will meet this afternoon with the state Board of Education and Schools Superintendent Patricia Hamamoto for the first official talks between the parties on a proposal to restore 27 classroom days to the public school calendar, beginning in January.

Lawsuit: Florida Failed to Provide 'High-Quality' Schools
Education Week (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org) | 1 day 5 hours 2 minutes ago
A lawsuit filed today charges that the state has failed to adequately fund education or to provide for a system of "high quality" public schools.

Gates Foundation gives $335 million for teacher quality
Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) | 1 day 6 hours 1 minute ago
SEATTLE: Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality ? from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay.