Mr. Duncan urged participants to search for solutions to the dilemmas posed by mass teacher layoffs.
On one hand, the resolution spares Mr. Bloomberg from becoming the first mayor in nearly 40 years to impose mass teacher layoffs.
In the capitols of Republican-controlled states, where the Party's scorched-earth partisanship has found its most extreme expression, the project is faltering, with a wave of special-election reversals and, more recently, mass teacher strikes.
What the letter didn't note is that what could be Atlanta's largest-ever mass teacher termination is not as simple as Davis would make it seem -- even in a right-to-work state like Georgia, which can circumvent some of the labyrinthine policies implemented in states with compulsory teachers union membership.
That can only happen in an environment where there is a critical mass of teachers and like-qualified students".
China has begun to consolidate rural schools into bigger schools which can provide a critical mass of teachers and services.
With initial graduating classes of just 10 students, Balakrishnan says, "The intake will be expanded once a critical mass of teachers is produced from the first few batches".
At national level, the critical mass of teachers and other professionals trained in active learning approaches have opened the door to more fundamental reforms of the education system.
> The results of the study revealed that, 67.8 % of the respondents got information about menstruation from their friends, followed by mass media, teachers, from their mothers and books (Fig. 1).
So while the CTC approach is profoundly student-oriented, it does provide masses of teacher support too.
Union officials say the mass jailing of teachers is the first in this country since 1978 and represents the first time in two decades that New Jersey teachers have been incarcerated for walking off the job.
