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...Stead, a newcomer to school committee politics, said he believes the key to closing the achievement gap is hiring more minority teachers, who could serve as desperately-needed mentors for students of color. Stead, who is black, has worked in the district as a principal and teacher for 34 years and considers himself to be one such role model...
Sizer graduated from Yale with a degree in English in 1953, and went on to serve in the Army and to work as a high school teacher. He then received his A.M. and Ph.D. from...
...Thursday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan ’86 urged universities to change the way they prepare teachers, exclaiming that a “revolutionary change” was necessary to change the “mediocre” state of many teacher-training programs at education schools. Duncan is correct in his judgment of teacher preparation; there are many ways the training process for teachers can be improved to prepare them better for the realities of the classroom...
...recent report found that 60 percent of teachers did not feel prepared to teach after graduating from education school. An important step toward remedying this problem would be to introduce more practical training into the teacher education process. To deal with classroom management—which many teachers have cited as a challenge—especially at struggling schools, teachers should be exposed to a substantial amount of hands-on classroom training to improve their ability to nurture and develop the skills of their students...
...received only the votes of Nolan and committee member Luc D. Schuster, who is not seeking reelection. Her intimacy with the data has also allowed her to discover worrying information, like the fact that Cambridge spends so much more than other districts but without the lower teacher-to-student ratios to show...