Most of Cambodia's artistic traditions had been passed down orally, from teacher to student, up through the 1970s.
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Both Tennessee and Louisiana changed their charter school laws to meet Race to the Top criteria, and California dropped from its books a law that made it illegal to tie teacher evaluations to student performance.
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Trepidation is widespread, from Colorado to Illinois to New York, which also passed a law tying teacher evaluations to student progress.
To be eligible, states also had to adopt "college- and career-ready" achievement standards and must link teacher evaluations to student achievement.
At issue were the length of the school day, tying teacher evaluations to student academic performance, and potential job cuts.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said last month that if Congress didn't overhaul No Child Left Behind soon he would waive certain requirements in exchange for states adopting changes he supports, such as linking teacher evaluations to student achievement and expanding charter schools.
The teacher slipped over to the student next to Ben, and glanced at her work.
The combination of software, broadband networks and powerful, affordable devices is making it possible to put high-quality educational resources into the hands of any teacher or student who has access to basic technology infrastructure and tools.
In February, state officials reached an agreement with the union that allows up to 40% of a teacher's rating to be based on student test scores and 60% on other measures, such as classroom observations and, potentially, student and parent surveys.
In first grade, whenever someone made a mess in the classroom, the teacher would ask a student to get the janitor.
To all 50 states, we said, if you show us the most innovative plans to improve teacher quality and student achievement, we'll show you the money.
We need more money, but we need to spend the money wisely and we need to institute reforms that raise standards and push everybody in a school -- principal, teacher, student, parent -- to pursue excellence.
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"When it comes to attacks like this, American people can relate to the word 'terrorism, '" one student told the teacher, according to him.
Infant mortality has declined, and some 100, 000 teachers have been hired to narrow the yawning teacher-student ratio.
Like a good teacher, the song speaks to each student in accordance with his ability to hear.
Today, a Mayangna team is working with the Ministry of Education to develop pilot teacher manuals and student workbooks that are being tested in rural classrooms across the BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve.
Of all the teacher elements analyzed by the Virginia group, feedback a direct, personal response by a teacher to a specific statement by a student seems to be most closely linked to academic success.
About 10 percent of the students attend regular classes at those schools, with an aide to help them, but 90 percent are in special classes, with student-teacher ratios as small as 1-to-1 and as large as eight students with two aides and one teacher.
Those pages eliminate the need for Facebook or MySpace, he says, and allow the schools to monitor all student-teacher communication.
It's also clear that there's much we want to know about student, teacher and school performance that cannot be determined from test results alone.
During his campaign, he often noted Somerville's low student-to-teacher ratio.
In addition, the study further revealed that the quality of education in Arua district, as in other rural districts, is adversely affected by a severe lack of resources and professional teachers, as well as high student-to-teacher ratios and large class sizes.
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Once each semester, a teacher, student or principal can invite experts to talk to the class on reproductive health.
But every student and every teacher made it to the roof safely and not a single life was lost in the school.
To qualify for federal funding, the state is forcing the city and other school districts to judge teacher performance based in part on student test scores.
And my opponents will say the dire predictions were going to be that every argument between a teacher and student would result in gunfire.
As a professor, Ayers has written more than a dozen books on his holistic approach to learning that downplays the boundaries between teacher and student.
Drawing input from 3, 000 classroom teachers, the project highlighted several measures that schools should use to assess teacher performance, including test data, student surveys and assessments by trained evaluators.
Why not, for example, stipulate that future grants will only be made in states that permit student results to be linked to teacher evaluations--now barred by New York and California, among others--and that give kids the right to exit dreadful schools for better ones?
These would eventually include requiring all states to adopt higher standards for student proficiency and teacher-evaluation systems that included student achievement.
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