Ms. Stavney's work as a master teacher is informed by a three-year project our foundation funded to better understand how to build an evaluation and feedback system for educators.

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Our home was a 24-hour education laboratory (Jacquie is a certified early childhood development teacher).

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Well, if history is our teacher, he would do better if he had a lawyer, even a bad one.

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What we're making clear to parents - and all other readers - on our database and in our stories is this is not the sole measure of a teacher.

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And each of us is here only because at some point in our lives a teacher changed our life trajectory.

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How do we reform our education system to ensure that the biggest determinant in the outcome of children is having a teacher that is prepared to teach the children what they need to know?

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