Largely because of a wave of retirements, the Board of Education needs to hire 8,000 teachers before school reopens in September -- 2,000 more than last fall -- and with eight weeks left it is still 3,300 teachers short of that goal, school officials say.
Is the goal "school readiness"?
Third, teacher development needs to be linked with wider goals of school and system development, and with appraisal and feedback practices and school evaluation.
They were going to focus on the usual goals -- school and job performance -- until they decided to conduct interviews.
For years, Ravitch supported many reform goals — accountability, school choice, charters.
James was put on Ritalin, but the specialists also devised behavioural strategies to give him goals at school.
Teachers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and government agencies contributed, for example, to standardization in the shape and style of the classroom, types of curricula, and goals for school enrollments.
"Even as he was encouraging young people to reach for greater heights for themselves, he was working to attain his own educational goals," the school said.
He started by setting minimum integration goals that school districts had to meet to qualify for some of the billions of federal dollars the law made available.
