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High-Poverty Schools With No Trouble Attracting Great Teachers
Higher pay is one currency, but hope is just as powerful for attracting great educators to serve in the schools that need them most.
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How a State Could Achieve Major Gains in Learning, Pay, Economy
Redesigning jobs to extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students by having them work in collaborative teams will bring benefits to teachers, students, and the state as a whole.
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Focus Federal Investments to Give Every Student Access to Excellent Teachers
To transform America’s public education system, it’s all-hands-on-deck time.
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Refreshing the Vision of an Opportunity Culture—for All
New school models that allow all teachers to succeed in teams increase the odds of widespread improvement in teaching and learning.
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How One Leading Educators Fellow Extends Her Reach
How can schools redesign jobs and use technology to reach more students with excellent teachers? And how can they offer teachers more pay, within budget?
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Teachers Say ‘Yes!’ to Opportunity Culture
A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.
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Authorizers: See What Replacing Failing Charter Schools, Replicating Great Ones Can Do
How could cities see their charter school sectors take off in quality, matching or besting the performance of their district schools, and the state?
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How to Pay Teachers Dramatically More, Within Budget
Schools could free funds to pay excellent teachers in teaching roles up to 40 percent more and teacher-leaders up to about 130 percent more, within current budgets and without increasing class sizes.
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Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate, Digital Learning and Excellent Teachers Go Well Together
Rather than seeing a painful (and politically volatile) trade-off between technology and teachers, we propose that digital education needs excellent teachers and that a first-rate teaching profession needs digital education.
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City-Based Strategies For Excellent Charter Schools
A number of forward looking cities have set aside contentious debates about charter schools, and have instead chosen to embrace high-quality charter schools in their reform strategies. This is a welcome development for students stuck in underperforming schools. But these city-based movements are not without challenges.