Commentary
Commentary
Feared teacher layoffs mostly didn't happen
Despite doomsday projections of huge layoffs as a result of the "new normal" of lower or flat education funding, NCTQ found in a recent survey that layoffs in large urban districts were modest ? 2.5 percent on average ? and only affected roughly half of surveyed cities.
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Quotable & notable
?We want to be lean and scrappy.'' * ?Gregory Taylor, president and chief executive of the Foundation for Newark's Future
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Curriculum & Instruction
Postcard from China: Constructivist Theory in Chinese Classrooms? Good Luck
Amber Winkler, Fordham's VP for Research, recently traveled China as a Senior Fellow with the Global Education Policy Fellowship Program (GEPFP).