He said school principals should be given increased authority to decide on classroom assignments for teachers.
Rather, coaches are specialists with no classroom assignments of their own, who observe other teachers, guide teachers' own learning and teach demonstration lessons.
She said that some of the $450 million a year currently spent on professional development could be redirected to a program in which top teachers would leave their classroom assignments temporarily to serve as mentors to other teachers.
After studying the matter, Ms. Davidson concluded, "Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers".
Stories From Purchase "On Our Way: A Collection of Short Stories by Young American Filmmakers" is a book of stories originally written as classroom assignments last year by 12 freshman filmmaking students at the Purchase College Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film.
Mr. Roberts said that Moses and Jazmyn each received $300 from the Children's Aid Society that was used to buy clothing to wear while tackling their classroom assignments and for going on preliminary college interviews.
But in spite of some attempts at human and neighborhood variety, the stories have a self-conscious sameness, as if they were classroom assignments in an undergraduate fiction-writing class.
A new book, "Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment," published by Paper Monument, is a collection of art teacher folk wisdom — the best classroom assignments that the contributors, most of them artists or art teachers, have given or received or even heard of.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — If a quarterback's rookie year is roughly equivalent to an endless first day of school, learning playbooks and defenses instead of locker combinations and classroom assignments, then his third season is akin to his going away to college.
A report issued this week by a teacher recruitment organization estimated the cost of the so-called teacher reserve pool — nearly 1,400 educators who have lost their classroom assignments because of shrinking enrollment, school closings or the elimination of programs — at $74 million this year.
