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5 Strategic Tips for First-Year Administrators by Ross Cooper





5 Strategic Tips for First-Year Administrators

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Nonacademic Skills Are Key To Success. But What Should We Call Them? by ANYA KAMENETZ

Nonacademic Skills Are Key To Success. But What Should We Call Them?

MAY 28, 2015 7:03 AM ET
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Truly, social investment: How one man's commitment made a difference to an entire community

Truly, social investment 

Two decades ago, Harris Rosen, who grew up poor on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and became wealthy in the Florida hotel business, decided to shepherd part of his fortune into the troubled Orlando community of Tangelo Park, reports Lizette Alvarez for The New York Times. Twenty-one years later, with an infusion of $11 million of Mr. Rosen's money so far, Tangelo Park is a striking success story. Nearly all its seniors graduate from…

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Who authorizes the authorizers? - Approval of Charter Schools

Who authorizes the authorizers?

A blog post by Arianna Prothero in Education Week looks at the continuing debate, and differing schools of thought, around charter authorization. Authorizers and how they make decisions have gotten more attention lately, especially in Ohio and Michigan, where state- and press-led investigations have turned up academic and financial failures at charters. Some have subsequently argued that weak authorizing practices lead to weak…

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Want to retain teachers? - Advice from a novice teacher who quit by Christmas

Want to retain teachers?

The combination of poor student performance and limited teacher experience makes it especially difficult for majority low-income schools across the country to fulfill strict guidelines under NCLB, writes educator Paul Barnwell in The Atlantic. Barnwell himself was a novice teacher in 2004 in the Teach Kentucky program, which put him in a classroom with minimal training. He quit his assignment by Christmas. Although some educators hit…

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Stop Preaching and Start Teaching By David Ginsburg

Stop Preaching and Start Teaching

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Leaders Don't Boss by Eric Sheninger

Leaders Don't Boss…

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Six Questions About Teacher Evaluation By Nancy Flanagan

Six Questions About Teacher Evaluation

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