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Teacher Education Excellence Act
Delivered by the Honorable Win Gatchalian, Senator of the 18th Congress:
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, the most important factor in education is the teacher. Schools are only as good or as bad as their teachers. Even the brightest learner will not reach his or her full potential without passionate and competent teachers to lead the way. For learners struggling to catch up, the teacher is their closest and most influential lifeline.
Sabi nga nila, kahit may angking talino ang isang bata pero kung wala namang lilinang o huhubog sa kanyang kakayahan at gagabay sa kanyang pag-aaral ay hindi rin niya makakamit ang pinakamahusay na edukasyon. Iyan ang papel ng isang guro.
Oregon school districts have increasingly targeted resources to reduce class sizes and boost other supports in historically underserved schools. Uniform class size mandates would redirect resources to students from more affluent families.
University of Maryland Names Jennifer King Rice Senior Vice President and Provost
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The University of Maryland has named Jennifer King Rice Ph.D., as Senior Vice President and Provost, effective August 11, 2021. The Senior Vice President and Provost is the second-ranking officer of the university, reporting directly to the President.
As Senior Vice President, Rice will lead the university in its mission to advance academic excellence while promoting social justice, cultural diversity, resource conservation, and economic opportunity. As chief academic officer, Rice will provide leadership and oversight for the development and implementation of all academic planning, policies, and budgeting; review all academic appointments and make recommendations to the President on all promotion and tenure decisions; and ensure the excellence and diversity of programs, faculty, and students ac
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During the pandemic, without guaranteed access to paid leave, teachers, already experiencing heightened stress, have been leaving the profession in droves. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images
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The Biden administration is expected to call for paid family and medical leave in its next major plan aimed at supporting families and revitalizing an economy devastated by the pandemic. It must not leave public school teachers behind.
Before the pandemic, many teachers did not have access to paid leave. A large number had to piece together a handful of paid sick days and unpaid leave in order to take time off to recover from childbirth, bond with a new infant, tend to an ailing family member or care for themselves.
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At least twenty states have passed or are considering measures related to the science of reading.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, center, and lawmakers gather Wednesday, March 10, 2021, for a news conference to announce that leaders of the state legislature and the governor have reached an agreement to reopen the state’s K-12 public schools to full-time daily instruction in Raleigh. Gov. Cooper recently signed the “Excellent Public Schools Act” into law.
If there’s one lesson education policymakers might have learned in the last twenty-five years, it’s that it’s not hard to make schools and districts do something, but it’s extremely hard to make them do it well. There has always been at least a tacit assumption among policy wonks that schools and teachers are sitting on vast reserves of untapped potential that must either to be set free from bureaucratic constraints or shaken out of its complacency. Those of us who have spent lots of time in classr