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Quality teaching is one part of a five-part cure for fixing public education detailed in Mandate for Change, a bold agenda for the incoming government.

"There is a difference between good and bad teachers, a big difference, and children pay a steep price for unlucky assignments.” (Richard Whitmire, National Education Writers Association) More...

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Jeanne Allen: Federal Race to the Top Funds for State Teacher Quality Efforts Need Strings Attached
CER Press Release, Washington, DC, October 8, 2009
Taxpayer money must be spent on teacher quality initiatives, like alternative certification and performance pay, which put children first. School districts that have anti-reform provisions in their employment policies and teacher contracts should not receive a dime of federal Race to the Top funds.

For the Good of the Children
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Nowhere in the coverage of DC Schools Chancellor Rhee’s recent layoffs of teachers is there any word - anything from the teachers interviewed or their union leaders - that addresses student achievement. Nothing. Teachers need to ask a basic question: "Am I good for kids?"

Are 'Race To The Top' Requirements Fair to Educators?
By Jeanne Allen, National Journal Education Experts Blog, August 7, 2009
When a teachers union contract forbids the use student achievement in evaluating teachers, no federal funds should touch that district. It's an adult-protection program - when kids' lives are at stake.
Get all the latest from CER on The Race to the Top.

How Can We Evaluate Teacher Performance?
Jeanne Allen discusses a new teacher incentive pilot program in Houston on KURV.

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