Tag: teachers
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How to Build, and Keep, the Best Teaching Staff
By Matthew Lynch In order for school reform in the U.S. to be successful, we must recruit, train, retrain, and fairly compensate teachers. School districts continuously ... -
TeacherMatch® partners with researchers for data-driven hiring
Peter Goff, PhD; Ron Ferguson, PhD; and Tripod Education Partners Join Research Consortium for Leading Provider of K-12 Education Talent Management Solutions (CHICAGO, IL) September 29, ... -
Study: U.S. teachers are absent too many days
A study from the National Council on Teacher Quality looked at teacher attendance for over 234,000 teachers in 40 districts during the 2012-13 school year. Teachers ... -
10 years as a teacher: A decade of lessons
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
Teachers: 10 ways to make money this summer
By Katie Parsons of Mumbling Mommy Teachers who are on a traditional school calendar have summers off. Of course, as these teachers know, that time isn’t ... -
Should we stop the use of test data for educator evaluations?
A guest post by Kimberly Kappler Hewitt **The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The ... -
Ways teachers can save money for retirement
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
Lessons from Educators on the Big Screen: Part III
It may be true that Hollywood tends to glamorous things and turn true stories into not-so-true ones for the screen, but there are also a lot ... -
Students who repeat a year stoke bad behaviour in class
Clara G. Muschkin, Duke University Students who are held back a year in school or who are older than average for their grade have long been ... -
6 Saddening Facts about Childhood Obesity and Unhealthy Body Image
The rate of obesity among children is skyrocketing—and this is something to worry about. After all, as you might expect, obese children are at a higher ...