Teacher evaluations could be positive and helpful. Unfortunately, there are a lot of principals that choose their favorites early on and give other teachers a tough time. I had one principal who only considered a lesson to be outstanding if all bells
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In an effort to help teachers facing problems with low performing students, the state of Rhode Island has placed step by step lesson plans on a Web site available to teachers and everyone else. The article on boston.com also explains that using the plans
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It seems that principals in New York City will get to be evaluated by the teachers. The article on nytimes.com might make some teachers wonder if it's too good to be true. Pressing the case for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's latest round of changes to the
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I knew it would happen. Yet another committee has decided that teachers are the ones to blame when students don't do well. After all, they can't do anything about the parents or living situations that some of these children might have, so according to
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