An excellent example of fast-track teacher training is Teach for America, founded nearly a decade ago and modeled on the Peace Corps.

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Where supportive policy and appropriate incentives have been addressed, results have shown significant improvement, for example, the in-service teacher trainees in NTU project, teachers were given higher status and a salary boost when they accomplished their training courses.

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By using Apex, a school could avoid the cost of hiring a teacher to conduct AP English classes, for example, but could still offer these advanced classes.

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Gibson, for example, is drawn to the toy train, so his teacher frequently uses this as a tool.

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One example given by executives was of video lessons by a computer science teacher.

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For example, ATEK literacy programme graduates, Wilfredo Apaza and Marisol Martinez, completed formal secondary education and teacher training courses and have now been recruited by a local bilingual school to teach religion and literacy in Quechua.

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So, for example, if memory serves, California had a press release wherein they said we saved over 60, 000 teacher jobs.

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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?

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