Education in the new Millennium

3/16/01 Unsatisfactory Performance. How California’s K–12 Education System Protects Mediocrity and How Teacher Quality Can Be Improved
Thomas C. Dawson & K. Lloyd Billingsley-Teachers are the primary agent in any child’s education. More than any other component, teacher effectiveness helps determine whether students receive a quality education, or if children are relegated to classrooms where learning is rare and the prospects for a productive and successful future often die. The issues outlined in this study are, therefore, critical to the future of our nation’s children. 

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3/15/01 The Center For School Reform

A great resource for learning more about the status of our school systems as well as other areas affecting the quality of our life, is The Pacific Research institute for Public Policy. 

What follows is an excerpt from their lead page on education reform.

Center for School Reform

The Center for School Reform is a program of the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, a California not-for-profit, non-partisan research organization. The Center focuses on K-12 education reform strategies such as charter schools, parental choice (public and private scholarship programs), academic standards, and education finance reform.

Below is a partial list of some of the great articles and reports that parents and citizens of this state should be aware of.

  • Keep the SAT as a UC Admissions Requirement

  • Protecting Teacher Incompetence in Los Angeles, 

  • S.F. Education Reactionaries Strike Again, San Francisco Examiner

  • Improving Teacher Quality in California, School Reform News

  • Great Deal for Teachers, Raw Deal for Kids

To read these and more go to     www.pacificresearch.org

 

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