D.C.'s Chancellor Makes Her Case

Autor/in	Maxwell, Lesli A.
Titel	D.C.'s Chancellor Makes Her Case
Quelle	In: Education Week, 28 (2008) 2, S.22-25 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; School Restructuring; Teacher Effectiveness; Educational Change; School Districts; Tenure; Academic Achievement; Federal Legislation; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Bildungsreform; School district; Schulbezirk; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Schulleistung; Bundesrecht
Abstract	Michelle A. Rhee, the chancellor of the public schools in Washington D.C. since June 2007, has become a favorite of the school reform set due to her bold efforts to remake the public schools in the nation's capital. For Rhee, exposing mismanagement, incompetence, and wide disparities in teaching quality has been a deliberate tactic as she builds her case to overhaul one of the nation's most beleaguered school districts. Purging ineffective teachers, principals, and central-office employees and recruiting talented replacements, she argues, is the only way to turn around a system that has been failing for decades. At the heart of that effort is the chancellor's quest to radically reshape the city's teachers' contract with a proposal that could make Washington teachers some of the highest-paid in the nation, provided they give up tenure protections and link their pay to student performance. While Rhee stakes much of her reform strategy on the teachers' contract, she said her team is working diligently on instructional initiatives for this school year that will center largely around the use of data. The district is already using interim assessments, but Rhee said there is "a long way to go" in training teachers on how to use and analyze data from those exams to help them adjust instruction. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10