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Michael Wacker

Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings, according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years.
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    I like that this article address the obvious gaps of research and lack of control of multiple variables that could eschew results. Nevertheless there are some great data points on why keeping and retaining the best in our profession needs to be a continued focus and conversation. Is it enough to use test scores, of course not. But a balanced system that helps us speed up the process for removing ineffective folks in our profession can't hurt.
Michael Wacker

Government Concerned Over Possible Google Books Monopoly - Business Center - PC World - 0 views

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    Google is being hit with its first (of many?) anti-Monopoly inquiries by the Department of Justice this week the NYTimes has learned. The concern is over the $125 million settlement that Google came to with the Author's Guild and the Association of Ameri
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