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President Obama speaks to schoolchildren

talkupaps8 Sep 20090

Here’s a round-up of national news coverage of President Barack Obama’s speech today to schoolchildren … New York Times: Obama coaches students to ‘get serious’ and study Education Week: Obama urges students to hit the books, persevere Washington Post: Obama lectures to students on virtues of hard work Los Angeles Times: Obama tries to motivate […]

Do good teachers make other teachers better?

talkupaps2 Sep 20090

There’s an interesting article in Education Week about the impact of “top-notch” teachers on their peers. Quoting from a new study, the articles suggests new evidence about the so-called “spillover effect” in teaching. Study co-authors C. Kirabo Jackson and Elias Bruegmann, working from 11 years of data, measured teacher quality by two different types of […]