"He wasn't the greatest student, but they weren't stellar teachers, either," a senior administration official said last week, after reviewing the interrogation record.
Once these teacher "grades" are made public, you can imagine the havoc that will ensue when parents find out that their child is assigned to one of the less than stellar teachers.
The premier research universities do include stellar teachers, as I discovered during my own education at Harvard; and learning a subject from someone with an international reputation can be inspiring.
Stellar teachers nurtured my love for science and engineering in middle school.
The film looks at five stellar teachers from across the country who are revered by their school communities, and what challenges they confront every day to continue teaching.
Judge Treu accurately identifies a few key issues in his decision: administrators may struggle to identify quality teaching in fewer than two years, layoffs may deprive schools and students of stellar teachers, and teacher employment law may fail to grant teachers an appropriate amount of due process.
But recruiting a stellar new head teacher is not that easy.
In a scant year and a half since it opened, the School at Columbia has gathered a stellar staff of teachers and administrators who are excited about their mission and who are providing a cutting-edge education for each of the students in a very diverse student body.
And our stellar board of teachers and scientists has reliably show up for the publishing equivalent of a barn-raising: lots of hard work for no pay but the vast satisfaction of helping to erect a structure serving the needs of the community.
The high school has a stellar academic record that teachers and parents credit in large part to the college setting.
