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Who's teaching L.A.'s kids?
The fifth-graders at Broadous Elementary School come from the same world — the poorest corner of the San Fernando Valley, a Pacoima neighborhood framed by two freeways where some have lost friends to the stray bullets of rival gangs.
Many are the...Tags: Teachers, Academic Progress, Los Angeles Unified School District, Children, University of California, Los Angeles
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Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to 'Stand and Deliver'
Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was 79.
The subject of the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver,"...Tags: Teachers, Mathematics, School Examinations, Social Issues, George W. Bush
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No gold stars for excellent L.A. teaching
It's a Wednesday morning, and Zenaida Tan is warming her students up with a little exercise in "Monster Math."
That's Tan's name for math problems with monstrously big numbers. While most third-graders are learning to multiply two digits by two digits,...Tags: Academic Progress, Teachers, Harvard University, Immigration, Marathon
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State takes on teacher evaluation
SACRAMENTO -- The state Board of Education took up the controversial issue of teacher evaluations Wednesday, unanimously voting to create an online database to share information about local, state and national efforts to measure educators' effectiveness....Tags: Academic Progress, Teachers, Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Unified School District, Human Interest
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UTLA won't accept pay cuts, 'value-added'
The state's largest teachers union Wednesday fired an early salvo in contract negotiations, serving notice that it wouldn't accept pay cuts easily and that it won't consider linking teacher evaluations to student test scores in the Los Angeles Unified...Tags: Academic Progress, Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing, Los Angeles Unified School District, Unemployment
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Teachers unions' clout in question
Teachers unions have a well-deserved reputation for exercising political clout. With a nearly unparalleled ability to raise cash and organize their ranks, they have elected school boards, influenced legislation and helped set the public school agenda in...Tags: Barack Obama, Academic Progress, Tom Torlakson, Career and Workplace, Arne Duncan
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D.C. schools may hold lesson for L.A.
WASHINGTON -- Roxanne Brummell has thrived in what many consider the toughest new testing ground for teachers in the nation.
The fifth-grade teacher in Washington, D.C., earned a "highly effective" rating under the district's controversial system that...Tags: Academic Progress, Teachers, Adrian Fenty, Human Interest, Teachers Unions
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N.Y. union seeks to curb teacher data
The New York City teachers union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the nation's largest school district should not follow through with its plan to disclose evaluation information about some 12,000 teachers by name, saying it could do...Tags: Suicide, Academic Progress, Teachers, Career and Workplace, Justice System
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Study critical of teacher layoffs
A study of Washington state teachers found that deciding layoffs based solely on who has the least seniority has a significant effect on students' ability to learn. The study comes as tens of thousands of teachers around the country stand to lose their...Tags: Academic Progress, Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing, Human Interest, Unemployment
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U.S. schools chief endorses release of teacher data
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that parents have a right to know if their children's teachers are effective, endorsing the public release of information about how well individual teachers fare at raising their students' test scores....Tags: Academic Progress, Teachers, Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Unified School District, Arne Duncan
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Teachers union agrees to reopen talks on evaluations
The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said Saturday that he has accepted city school district officials' proposal to reopen negotiations over teacher evaluations but stopped short of saying whether a method tying teacher reviews to their students'...Tags: Academic Progress, Los Angeles Unified School District, School Examinations, Teachers Unions, Elections
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N.Y. can release data on teachers
The New York City school system can publicly release performance ratings for more than 12,000 teachers based on their students' test scores, a Manhattan judge ruled Monday, in what would be the largest such disclosure in the country. The interests of...Tags: Academic Progress, Columbia University, Career and Workplace, Justice System, Los Angeles Unified School District
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