Word: teacher
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Cellucci's agenda of more extensive teacher testing has alienated teachers, who complain that the tests are poorly designed...
...lost more teacher support as he tries to evaluate individual schools by standardized test scores--which teachers also say are relatively new and untested. Other states have taken similar measures, and the state Board of Education already announced that it would grade school districts, but that hasn't won Cellucci any friends among teachers...
...though Finneran infamously labeled the 59 percent of the prospective teachers who failed the first teacher tests in April of 1998 "idiots," he is not a big advocate of extending testing to seasoned veterans...
Bush's more controversial plan involves "Title I," which sends $8 billion yearly to schools with poor kids. These grants can amount to $150,000 for a typical 500-child school; they've usually been used for teacher's aides or special remedial classes, without great results. Reformers in both parties say the idea of holding schools accountable for progress is overdue. The prospect of being penalized by having the federal money rerouted directly to parents "gets the attention of educators and the bureaucracy," says Ray Cortines, a Democrat and former schools chief in New York City and San Francisco...
...Timorese was a dead man walking when American teacher Pamela Sexton found him. The militiamen had used machetes on his arms, chopping repeatedly down to the bone. His stomach was slashed open. Blood covered his frame. "Where do you put a tourniquet on someone who has been sliced all over?" asked Sexton, a U.N. observer evacuated last week from East Timor. She took him to the Motael clinic in Dili, but he soon died. The militia later came back and burned the clinic to the ground...