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| St. Petersburg College's National Center for Teacher Transformation (NCTT) provides the resource information below via several databases from across the nation. The site also includes an overview, mission, and initiatives of the NCTT; a discussion board and additional resources for best practices. |
Duncan: Preschool Key to Solving Education Crisis
Education Week -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the key to solving the education crisis in the United States is offering quality early childhood programs to every child... Read more
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The Nation's Report Card
National Ctr for Education Statistics -- Nationally representative samples of more than 168,000 fourth-graders and 161,000 eighth-graders participated in the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics. At each grade, students responded to questions designed to measure their knowledge and abilities across five mathematics content areas: number properties and operations, measurement, geometry, data analysis, statistics and probability and algebra. Gains in students' average mathematics scores seen in earlier years did not continue from 2007 to 2009 at grade 4 but did continue at grade 8... Read more
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Turnover in Principalship Focus of Research
Education Week -- Data available from a handful of states suggest that only about half of beginning principals remain in the same job five years later, and that many leave the principalship altogether when they go... Read more
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States Lag in Educational Innovation, Report Says
Education Week -- A report card issued Monday on state-level innovation in education found what a trio of ideologically varied groups sees as deeply disturbing results, with most states earning C's, D's, or even F's in such key areas as technology, high school quality, and removal of ineffective teachers... Read more
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