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Although Cambridge students score below the national average on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the city was chosen as having America's "best school committee," the National Education Association (NEA) announced publicly last week...
...Cambridge school committee is just one of many school boards throughout the country that is setting education policy in a way that supports teachers and other school staff," states a report in the January/February issue of NEA Today...
...Cambridge school committee members focus their efforts on a rational review of policy issues. They resist the temptation to get bogged down in personalities-or the quick-fix school reform proposals trumpeted by ambitious states and national politicians," continues the report by the NEA, which is the nation's largest teachers' union...
Going to school in Cambridge is getting better all the time. The Cambridge School Board was named "the best school board in America," by the National Education Association's newspaper NEA Today...
Futrell, whose NEA is the nation's predominant teachers' union, approved of the teacher-centered thrust of the report. But, though a task-force member, she expressed doubts about the pay system and the lead-teacher concept. She feared that they might "become another merit pay or career ladder plan, those plans having been seriously flawed and having failed in many instances in the past." Ultimately, the attitude of experts like Futrell may be the key to the Carnegie program's success or failure. For just as teachers are central to the study's implementation, they will also determine whether...