The key attraction is a higher salary for math teachers, and this is where the Campaign for Fiscal Equity funds, targeted for improving instruction, would come in handy.
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is a federal program that provides money for improving instruction at schools with a high proportion of poor students.
The key idea is creating an autonomous system capable of performing skydiving maneuvers in a virtual way, and turning it into a powerful tool for improving instruction methods.
American teachers found the feedback they received to be less useful for improving instruction than their peers elsewhere.
Had the Gates Foundation's Measures for Effective Teaching been a tool for improving instruction rather than mandating not-ready-for-prime time value-added teacher evaluations, would it now be seen as the enemy?
The Atlanta public school system was once lauded for doing the difficult work of improving instruction.
The Giuliani administration and some of the city's most influential business leaders have continued to push for merit pay as a way of improving instruction.
The Education Improvement Act, passed in 1984, increased state funding for education to improve instruction and to raise student performance.
The theory behind the No Child Left Behind Act was that holding schools accountable for test scores would force them to improve instruction for groups of children whom they had historically shortchanged.
In his first attempt at improving instruction for New York City schoolchildren, Chancellor Joel I. Klein has added two days to the coming school year, time that had been set aside for teacher training.
