So wrote second-grade teacher Anthony McGrann on his Seattle-based education blog, Seconds.

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The new president pushed through the most sweeping education overhaul in seven decades, a potentially far-reaching reengineering of Mexico's deeply dysfunctional education system that calls for merit-based teacher hiring and promotion to replace a system in which union domination meant jobs were inherited and sold.

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The research, based on the US-wide National Education Longitudinal Survey, found that a teacher's gender had "large effects on student test performance".

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Chris Pitt moderated a panel on results-based education with Eric Nadelstern of Columbia University, Maureen Devlin, a classroom teacher in Wayland Public Schools, and Steve Hargadon, director of the Web 2.0 Labs.

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