Most states are beginning to get serious about boosting the quality of their teaching force. Unfortunately, most of the steps they are taking point in the wrong direction. This "report card" contains plenty of evidence of that fact-together with some happy exceptions and hopeful signs.
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President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the…
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Chester E. Finn, Jr., scholar, educator and public servant, has devoted his career to improving education in the United States. At Fordham, he is now Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus. He’s also a Volker Senior Fellow at…
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Marci Kanstoroom is Senior Editor at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she works on a variety of national research projects. She is also Executive Editor at Education Next. Previously, as Research Director at Fordham, she wrote and edited numerous publications on charter schools, teacher quality, and federal education policy, and she testified on education issues before the U.S. House of…
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