She is an authority on school reform, educational equity and teacher quality, the last because she directed the work of a national blue-ribbon panel on teaching and founded a charter school that specializes in teacher training.
She is an authority on school reform, educational equity and teacher quality, the latter because she directed the work of a national blue ribbon panel on teaching and founded a charter school that specializes in teacher training.
More interesting is the broader issue of what specialists refer to as "equity in teacher distribution," which refers to the fact that in public-school district after public-school district across the country, the most disadvantaged students are the most likely to be taught by inexperienced or under-performing teachers.
"The whole basis of federal education policy since the '60s has been the idea that if kids got greater access to opportunity, they would do better, so the main focus of policy should be increasing that sort of equity, access to teachers," TNTP president Tim Daly said in an interview.
By striving for equity in education, teachers and pupils in Uzbekistan are equipping their schools with child-friendly standards that are the right of every child.
Candymaker Mars announced Wednesday that it will acquire the parent company of private-label pet food maker Doane Pet Care from Teachers Private Capital, the private equity arm of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
Trion Worlds, a lesser known game development company headquartered in Silicon Valley, yesterday gave even further evidence that the "deep end" of online gaming is alive and well, announcing that it has raised an $85 million round of strategic growth equity financing from Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments.
"The initial perception that left-leaning parties are bad for enterprises is not necessarily true," says Wayne Kozun, senior vice president in charge of public equities at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
Even if the last minute attempts to include the amendment in the omnibus bill and the Continuing Resolution fail, this 11th-hour introduction does not bode well for an open and democratic debate on teacher quality equity going forward.
Furthermore, improving educational equity mainly depends on qualified teachers and the high quality education children can receive from competent teachers (OECD 2011b).
A provision in the stimulus bill — Title XV, Section 14005, part d, sub-part 2, to be exact — uses the clout of more than $50 billion in emergency aid to state educational systems to return to the teacher-equity question and force states to develop awareness and reform programs.
