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Article:
For Education to Flourish
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For education to flourish teachers must be competent, parents must be supportive, and students must be cooperative. Unfortunately, teachers are the only ones who are held to their end of this arrangement.
Here is a tidbit to show what teachers are facing - taken from a DEpt. of Ed. document on Imrpoving Teacher Quality.
The Department of Education is currently monitoring each State to assess progress in meeting the highly qualified teacher goal, and to assure compliance with the requirements of ESEA Title II, Part A. Ten state visits were conducted in 2004, and we expect to visit an additional 35-40 States in 2005 and the remainder in early 2006. In addition to reviewing for compliance, we are using these visits to collect information on innovative State and local initiatives, including promising practices in the areas of certification and licensure, teacher preparation, recruitment, retention, induction and mentoring, professional development, technology, paraprofessionals, and leadership. Descriptions of many of these promising practices are available at the website www.teacherquality.us/Public/PracticesHome.asp, which we will continue to update.
We wonder what they are doing to to eliminate problems within the family of a student--like poverty and apathy...
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